"What matters in literature in the end is……" — Harold Bloom
"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering."
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66 Quotes by Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site.
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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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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
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