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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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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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There is no method except yourself.
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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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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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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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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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One lives but once in the world.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
— Paul Gauguin
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How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point…
— Kenneth Tynan
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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
— Louis L'Amour
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I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well.…
— Jackie Kennedy
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way…
— Mary Ruefle
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
— Harold Bloom
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One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
— Gustave Courbet
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But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
— Lope de Vega
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The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will…
— James Frey
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
— Mircea Eliade
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