If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M. H. Abrams
John updike is always fun. And one of my former students, tom pynchon. And harold bloom, another former student. — M. H. Abrams
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. — M. H. Abrams
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and — M. H. Abrams
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M. H. Abrams