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Us Quotes by Harold Bloom
- Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
- But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to…
- In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating…
- Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk…
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz