Quotes by Christopher Ricks

“The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever”

“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.”

“Dylans Visions of Sin,”

“I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse,”

“Thats 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 wouldnt say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.”