George Steiner frases

• Cada lengua es un mundo. Sin traducción, habitaríamos parroquias rayanas en el silencio.

  George Steiner

  Silence, Borders, World

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• When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

  George Steiner

  Comprensión, Mundo, Camino

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• To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

  George Steiner

  Significance, Translate, Decipher

  George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks

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• No hay verdadero lector que no haya experimentado la fascinación reprobatoria de las grandes estanterías de libros sin leer, de las bibliotecas nocturnas de las que Borges es fabulista. No hay lector que no haya escuchado, en su oído interior, la llamada de los cientos de miles, de los millones de volúmenes que permanecen en las estanterías de la Biblioteca Británica pidiendo ser leídos. Porque hay en cada libro una apuesta contra el olvido, una apuesta contra el silencio, que sólo puede ganarse cuando el libro se abre de nuevo (pero a diferencia del hombre, el libro puede esperar siglos el peligro de la resurrección).

  George Steiner

  Libro, Noche, Hombres

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• the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Teacher, Adventure

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• The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

  George Steiner

  Libro, Lectura, Manos

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Morning, Men, Play

  Language and Silence preface (1967)

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• Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

  George Steiner

  Language, Understatement

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• El lenguaje es el principal instrumento del rechazo del hombre a aceptar el mundo tal como es.

  George Steiner

  Men, World, Language

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.398, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  George Steiner

  Reality, Silence, Special

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

  George Steiner

  Heart, Love Is, Expression

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• There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

  George Steiner

  Culture, Noise, Gregariousness

  The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.

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• El hombre corriente proyecta una sombra que no acabamos de comprender. El hombre genial proyecta luz.

  George Steiner

  Men, Light, Shadow

  "Not a Preface, but a Word of Thanks". Foreword to "Unfinished Journey" by Yehudi Menuhin, 1977.

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• Creo que una obra de arte, como las metáforas en el lenguaje, puede plantear las cuestiones más serias y difíciles de un modo que realmente haga que los lectores respondan por sí mismos; que la obra de arte, mucho más que un ensayo o un tratado, implica al lector, le interpela directamente y le hace partícipe del argumento.

  George Steiner

  Art, Believe, Difficult Questions

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• It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

  George Steiner

  Frustration, Ties, One Day

  "George and his dragons". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

  George Steiner

  Self, Years, Six

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.231, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Libros - el mejor antídoto contra el gas pantanoso del aburrimiento y la vacuidad

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

  George Steiner

  Innovation, Tragedy, World

  "The Death of Tragedy". Book by George Steiner, 1961.

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• I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

  George Steiner

  Heart, Lines, Made

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• Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

  George Steiner

  Odio, Creer, Gente

  Interview with D.J.R. Bruckner, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Song, Infidelity

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

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• Si hay una enfermedad crónica por la que cada maestro debe ser afligido, es, de hecho, la esperanza.

  George Steiner

  Dios, Fe, Esperanza

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.224, Faber & Faber

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• All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

  George Steiner

  Art, Criticism, Phrases

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Las palabras saturadas de mentiras o atrocidades no reanudan fácilmente la vida.

  George Steiner

  Life, Lying, Atrocities

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.182, Faber & Faber

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• Nada es más sintomático de la enervación, de la descompresión de la imaginación occidental, que nuestra incapacidad para responder a los alunizajes. Ni un solo gran poema, imagen, metáfora ha surgido de este acto sobrecogedor, del rescate de Ícaro por Prometeo o de Faetón en vuelo hacia las estrellas.

  George Steiner

  Stars, Moon, Imagination

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