13 Quotes by Christopher Ricks

That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven’t noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren’t good.

When a language creates – as it does – a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.