Quotes by : George Steiner

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

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....

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

The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication....

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them,....

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