"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem." ― 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." "When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas." More In Politics "My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics."― Jack Kemp "Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."― Leonardo da Vinci "Politics and power is a realm of relative influence."― Fareed Zakaria