"I think the hardest thing to teach a……" — M H Abrams
"I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite."
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20 Quotes by M H Abrams
M H Abrams has 20 quotes on this site.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the…
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is…
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as…
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily…
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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More Changeable Quotes
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
— William Shakespeare
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child.…
— Ayelet Waldman
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind…
— Ernst Mach
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Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal…
— Thomas Paine
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Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.
— Tom Hiddleston
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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life…
— Gautama Buddha
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible,…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is…
— Christine de Pizan
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of…
— Martin Luther
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