Author Profile
George Steiner
1929 • American • Critic
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Collected Meditations
Showing 25 quotesMy father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.— George Steiner
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
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.— George Steiner
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.— George Steiner