Quotes by Steiner, George

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the >>

The age of the book is almost gone. >>

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he ca >>

Quotations about Language

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang i >>

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach the >>

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal l >>

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Steiner, George