“Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us.… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share
“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. — Harold Bloom Copy Share
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom Copy Share
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
![“I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by…” quote by Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c30/harold-bloom-3350_feelings_i-won-t-say-he-shakespeare-invented-us-b_2229453.jpg)
