It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the...

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the...

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and...

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and...

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves...

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves...

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold...

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold...

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We...

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We...

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have...

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about...

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about...

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is...

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is...

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our...

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our...

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be...

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot,...

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot,...

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our...

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

Language is memory and metaphor

Language is memory and metaphor

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.