All Harold Bloom Quotes
- What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a… Beginning
- What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical… Awareness
- We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space,… All
- Literature is achieved anxiety. Achieved
- Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually… Academic
- The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes… Better
- Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… Address
- Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct… Book
- The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. Class
- 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… Contains
- The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or… Been
- One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself… Accomodating
- No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean. Funny
- You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have… Awful
- To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all, All
- I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike Academy
- People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach… Cannot Stand
- No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. Chaucer
- In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Book
- Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any… Any