Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do. George Steiner Read Quote
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge. George Steiner Read Quote
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. George Steiner Read Quote
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right. George Steiner Read Quote
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. George Steiner Read Quote
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language. George Steiner Read Quote
I’m sorry, I’m absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs. George Steiner Read Quote
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument. George Steiner Read Quote
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. George Steiner Read Quote
