Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta"No culture has a pact with eternity," he says. "The conditions which made possible the giants of the western poetic, aesthetic, philosophic tradition no longer really obtain." Steiner doesn't believe "there can be a Hamlet without a ghost, a Missa Solemnis without a missa", and if you say that the questions addressed by religion are "nonsense or baby talk or trivial, I don't believe that certain dimensions will be available to you. Particularly today, when the atheist case is being put, if I may say so, with such vulgarity of mind."
George Steiner interviewed by Christopher Tayler, The Guardian, 19 April 2008.
George Steiner interviewed by Christopher Tayler, The Guardian, 19 April 2008.
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