Ihab Hassan Quotes

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.