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Harold Bloom Quotes
![You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/787/786886/786886.webp "You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent Picture Quote #1")
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Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths (Harold Bloom Quotes)
You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you (Harold Bloom Quotes)
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Literature is achieved anxiety (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? (Harold Bloom Quotes)
There is no method except yourself (Harold Bloom Quotes)
It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Real reading is a lonely activity (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in the Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable (Harold Bloom Quotes)
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Shakespeare is universal (Harold Bloom Quotes)
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron (Harold Bloom Quotes)
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read (Harold Bloom Quotes)
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic (Harold Bloom Quotes)
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent (Harold Bloom Quotes)
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 it's own corrective (Harold Bloom Quotes)
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 (Harold Bloom Quotes)
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology (Harold Bloom Quotes)
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era (Harold Bloom Quotes)
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats (Harold Bloom Quotes)
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage (Harold Bloom Quotes)
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves, and not someone else (Harold Bloom Quotes)
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem (Harold Bloom Quotes)
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 (Harold Bloom Quotes)
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own (Harold Bloom Quotes)
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering (Harold Bloom Quotes)