Quotes by : George Steiner

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.

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

We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks....

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And....

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation,....

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....

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is....