"Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the……" — Harold Bloom
"Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order."
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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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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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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
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More Disorder Quotes
This quote is filed under Disorder Quotes,
one of 565 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy.…
— Roseanne Barr
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
— Pierre Bayle
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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has…
— David Beckham
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
— Tony Blair
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making…
— Albert Camus
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
— Emily Carr
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The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost…
— Jimmy Carr
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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
— Kirstie Alley
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is…
— A. R. Ammons
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
— Fiona Apple
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the…
— Phyllis Diller
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