George Steiner's Quotes
Born: 1929-04-23
Profession: Critic
Nation: American
Biography of George Steiner
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Tags: Reality, Silence, SpecialWe know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
Tags: Evening, Morning, WorkTo many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
Tags: Men, Peace, WarThe immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
Tags: Between, Human, MajorityThe journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
Tags: Point, Social, VisionThe ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
Tags: Genius, Light, UnderstandThere is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
Tags: Culture, Noise, WrongThe most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
Tags: Brain, Heart, Human