To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding
George SteinerTo starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.
George SteinerIt is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
George SteinerFunctions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
George Steiner