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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by M. H. Abrams
M. H. Abrams
Total Quotes 19
If You Don't Set Your Writing - Teaching - At A Level That Makes Them Stretch, They Are Never Going To Develop Their Intellectual Muscle.
Teaching
Writing
Intellectual
At First, Students Tend To Freeze At The First Effort. The Breakthrough Comes When They Realize That They Can Make It Better - Can Identify What Their Purposes Were And Realize Better Ways To Achieve Those Purposes.
Teaching
Effort
Purpose
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.
Military
Communication
Voice
I Think Most Of The Things I Published Have Been Published Out Of Desperation, Not Because They Were Perfected.
Thinking
Desperation
Has Beens
The Survival Of Artistic Modes In Which We Recognize Ourselves, Identify Ourselves And Place Ourselves Will Survive As Long As Humanity Survives.
Long
Humanity
Survival
When Something Startlingly New Comes Up, Young People, Especially, Seize It. You Can't Complain About That. I Think Its Heyday Has Passed, But It's Had An Effect And Will Continue To Have An Effect.
Fashion
Thinking
People
Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At Least, Easier Reading.
Book
Reading
Hard Work
The Theories Of The Major Philosophers Of The 18th Century Secular Enlightenment Were Biblical And Theological In Spite Of Themselves.
Biblical
Enlightenment
Philosopher
If You Learn One Thing From Having Lived Through Decades Of Changing Views, It Is That All Predictions Are Necessarily False.
Views
Predictions
Decades
It's Amazing How, Age After Age, In Country After Country, And In All Languages, Shakespeare Emerges As Incomparable.
Country
Age
Language
When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.
Inspirational
Funny
Graduation
John Updike Is Always Fun. And One Of My Former Students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, Another Former Student.
Fun
Students
Former
Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury.
Book
Literature
If You Read Quickly To Get Through A Poem To What It Means, You Have Missed The Body Of The Poem.
Mean
Poetry
Body
I Think The Hardest Thing To Teach A Student Is That What He Or She Puts Down On Paper Is Changeable. It's Not The Final Thing, It's The First Thing, Which May Just Be The Suggestive, Vague Identification Of Something That You Have To Come Back To And Rewrite.
Thinking
Editing
Finals
Key Metaphors Help Determine What And How We Perceive And How We Think About Our Perceptions.
Thinking
Keys
Perception
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.
Interesting
Focus
Humanity
Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.
People
Enjoy Life
Literature
We Are Human, And Nothing Is More Interesting To Us Than Humanity.
Interesting
Humanity
Humans
Born: July 23, 1912
Died: April 21, 2015
Occupation: Literary Critic
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