George Steiner Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

  George Steiner

  Real, Moving, Risk

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.31, Oxford University Press on Demand

• To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

  George Steiner

  Risk, Understanding, Constrain

  George Steiner (1980). “On difficulty, and other essays”

• I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Mean, Judging

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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