All Harold Bloom Quotes
- We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. Find
- ... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or… Advance
- I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles… Carroll
- The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. Art
- Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. Bearable
- We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. Frequently
- Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. Afford
- How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it?… Anything Better
- I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. Enough People
- It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary. Encountering
- We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us… All
- Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on.… Admit
- We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;… Better
- If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is… Anxiety
- If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go… Abandon
- What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has… Any