"If I were to sum up the negative……" — Harold Bloom
"If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people."
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66 Quotes by Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site.
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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 Anxiety Quotes
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one of 1,388 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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