Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger. - George Steiner 1 Share Now -
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. - George Steiner 2 Share Now -
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. - George Steiner 3 Share Now -
Given 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 Steiner 4 Share Now -
