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Quote by George Steiner

“My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.”

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George Steiner is an esteemed literary critic, born on April 23, 1929. His work spans a wide range of literary fields, including novels, poetry, drama, and philosophy. more

“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”

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Book:Real Presences

Source: Real Presences

“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.”

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Author:George Steiner

“To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.”

Significance Translate Decipher

Book:After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

Source: After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

“There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.”

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Author:Hakim Bey

“An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.”

Mind Heart Open Mind Open Heart Prerequisites

Book:Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

Source: Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

Quote by George Steiner

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