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

- Ihab Hassan

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. So…

- Ihab Hassan

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 ex…

- Ihab Hassan

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes …

- Ihab Hassan

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

- Ihab Hassan