"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas." ― M. H. Abrams Topic(s): Politics More From M. H. Abrams "It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable." "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem." More In Politics "Politics and power is a realm of relative influence."― Fareed Zakaria "Arkansas is a state where politics is retail."― Mike Huckabee "Voting is a civic sacrament."― Theodore Hesburgh