“If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.” IfsWritingLevelsTeachingIntellectualMuscles Author:M. H. Abrams
“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.” IfsMeanBodyPoetryReading Books Author:M. H. Abrams
“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.” IfsHumansHumanityLiteratureLosesHuman BeingsInterestingFocusSourceAppealsPermanence Author:M. H. Abrams
“If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.” IfsViewsOne ThingDecadesPredictions Author:M. H. Abrams
