Shakespeare Quote by Harold Bloom Download Open image ““No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.”” — Harold Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shakespeare
“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.” — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit… — Alfred B. Douglas 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
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!” — Kathy Bryson Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit,… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed… — J.R. Partington Copy Share Image
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
“Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use Turns to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
