M. H. Abrams Quotes


Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. M. H. Abrams Determine 86
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. M. H. Abrams Changing 83
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. M. H. Abrams Another 83
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. M. H. Abrams Graduation 74
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams Poetry 64
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. M. H. Abrams Ability 57
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. M. H. Abrams Artistic 53
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. M. H. Abrams 18th 52
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. M. H. Abrams Human 41
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. M. H. Abrams Easier 29

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