"We read not only because we cannot know……" — Harold Bloom
"We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life."
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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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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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