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George Steiner Quotes

American - Critic | April 23, 1929 -

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Silence World Language Without Would

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.

Work Art Challenges Believe Language

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.

Love Hate I Am People Believe You

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Silence Rest Reality Language Deal

The 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.

Heart Brain Learn Important She Pay

We 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.

Work Morning Day Man Evening Play

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Life Words Resume Lies Saturated

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

Light Man Shadow Genius Understand

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Vision Impact Uniform Individual

The age of the book is almost gone.

Age Book Gone Almost

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Men Leaves Indifferent Which Them

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

Culture Wrong Noise Something

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