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Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
• The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
• There is no method except yourself.
• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
• Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
• Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
• 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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