George Steiner
American literary critic
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
—George Steiner, American literary critic, After Babel, 1975
Posted on June 10, 1999 at 1:30 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
—George Steiner, Language and Silence
Posted on February 13, 2001 at 2:12 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
—George Steiner, Language and Silence
Posted on June 3, 2002 at 11:28 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
—George Steiner, Language and Silence
Posted on April 19, 2002 at 10:54 AM
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