"If you read quickly to get through a……" — M H Abrams

"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

Body Quotes Get Quotes Mean Quotes Means Quotes Means You Quotes Missed Quotes Poem Quotes Poetry Quotes Quickly Quotes Read Quotes Read Quickly Quotes Reading Books Quotes Through Quotes You Quotes You Read Quotes

20 Quotes by M H Abrams

M H Abrams has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is…
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as…
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily…
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing.…

See all 20 quotes by M H Abrams »

More Body Quotes

This quote is filed under Body Quotes, one of 12,166 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. — Jane Austen

See all 12,166 Body Quotes »