"Literature is achieved anxiety." — Harold Bloom

"Literature is achieved anxiety."

— Harold Bloom

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66 Quotes by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a…
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of…
There is no method except yourself.
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is…
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a…
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the…
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the…
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature…
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told…
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even…

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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more… — Mikhail Bakunin
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who… — David Baldacci
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will… — Dave Barry
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. — Bruce Barton
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is… — Jean Baudrillard
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — Saul Bellow
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. — Sarah Bernhardt
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,… — Kathryn Bigelow
If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal. — Usain Bolt

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