"It is hard to go on living without……" — Harold Bloom
"It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary."
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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 Encountering Quotes
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your…
— Freeman Patterson
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We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes…
— Susie Orbach
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You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside,…
— Rajneesh
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In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log…
— Guy Cook
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With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be…
— Rajneesh
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The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us…
— Lauren F. Winner
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The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.
— Unknown Author
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Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering…
— Gary Valentine
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness…
— Karl Jaspers
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