M. H. Abrams Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous M. H. Abrams quotes and sayings (critic). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.”
“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”
“The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”
“If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.”
“Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.”
“The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.”
“Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.”
“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
“John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”
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