Quotes by : George Steiner

What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go....

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The....

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man....

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers,....

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could....