My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
George SteinerEvery language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
George SteinerGiven 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 SteinerThe ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner