M. H. Abrams

Quotes

• “John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”
• “The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”
• “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.”
• “When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that.”
• “If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.”

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