Advocacy Quote by Harold Bloom Download Open image ““Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”” — Harold Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advocacy Books Continuity Politics Reading Timelessness
“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Every book your read is an opportunity for self-growth and expansion.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.” — Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer Copy Share Image
“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be… — Henry of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
“In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.” — Julia Joanne Black Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of… — John Daly Copy Share Image
“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“You can not protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.” — John Taliaferro Copy Share Image
“Justice is not simply argued — it is meticulously prepared, strategically presented, and fearlessly defended.” — Millennium Chambers Copy Share Image