Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks Quotes

1 Sourced Quote

    • Source
    • Report...
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.

Christopher Ricks

Quote of the day

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks

Born: 1933 (age 92)
Bio: Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B.
Known for:
  1. Dylan's Visions of Sin (2004)
  2. The Force of Poetry (1984)
  3. Keats and Embarrassment (1974)
  4. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987)

WikipediaChristopher Ricks on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

British Critic Quotes
Critic Quotes
20th-century Critic Quotes

Related Authors

Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill
English Poet

T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
English Author

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred
British Poet

Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
American Songwriter

Featured Authors

Elizabeth I of EnglandAndré GideJean-Paul SartreDonald TrumpJane AustenMartin Luther King, Jr.Martin ScorseseLewis CarrollSteve JobsUmberto EcoCharles DarwinVirgil

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes