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Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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There is no method except yourself.
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they…
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;…
— Ramona Koval
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through…
— Ed Crane
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I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my…
— Marilynne Robinson
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In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,…
— Ian Mcewan
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Sometime we become victims of our desires misreading our realities.
— Tasneem Hameed
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You gave me emotions that I read as love, little did I you cared about me no more than a friend.
— Mike Smith
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