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Harold bloom is a famous American Critic. Find inspiration and knowledge by reading this collection of quotes. Whether you're looking for a quote for your loved one's important day, cards, scrapbooks, letters or messages, these quotes can help you.
Harold bloom was born on Jul 11, 1930.

Top 20 Harold bloom Quotes
  • The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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  • Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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  • I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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  • Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
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  • The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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  • I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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  • No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
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  • Shakespeare is universal.
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  • 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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  • In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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  • Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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  • Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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  • What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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  • We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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  • I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
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