"I realized early on that the academy and……" — Harold Bloom
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66 Quotes by Harold Bloom
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of…
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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…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a…
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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…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the…
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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…
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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…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even…
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More Academy Quotes
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like…
— Albert Brooks
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year…
— Kyle Chandler
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
— Ray Charles
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You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I…
— Cher
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
— James Russell Lowell
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The…
— David Gill
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
— Baruch Spinoza
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
— Gustave Courbet
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