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Harold Bloom Quotes

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene Picture Quote #1

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves Picture Quote #1

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To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential Picture Quote #1

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading... the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education Picture Quote #1

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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order Picture Quote #1

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers Picture Quote #1

Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy Picture Quote #1

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation Picture Quote #1

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence Picture Quote #1

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads Picture Quote #1

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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies Picture Quote #1

I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works Picture Quote #1

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands Picture Quote #1

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness Picture Quote #1

My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions Picture Quote #1

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside Picture Quote #1

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The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow Picture Quote #1

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough Picture Quote #1

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light Picture Quote #1

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy Picture Quote #1

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin Picture Quote #1

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society. But in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude Picture Quote #1

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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary (Harold Bloom Quotes) 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 (Harold Bloom Quotes) 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 (Harold Bloom Quotes) 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 (Harold Bloom Quotes) I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene (Harold Bloom Quotes) Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves (Harold Bloom Quotes) To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all (Harold Bloom Quotes) 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 (Harold Bloom Quotes) It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential (Harold Bloom Quotes) All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is (Harold Bloom Quotes) 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 (Harold Bloom Quotes) Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading... the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education (Harold Bloom Quotes) Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order (Harold Bloom Quotes) The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers (Harold Bloom Quotes) Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy (Harold Bloom Quotes) If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation (Harold Bloom Quotes) I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence (Harold Bloom Quotes) Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads (Harold Bloom Quotes) He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies (Harold Bloom Quotes) I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works (Harold Bloom Quotes) Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands (Harold Bloom Quotes) Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness (Harold Bloom Quotes) My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions (Harold Bloom Quotes) Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside (Harold Bloom Quotes) The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow (Harold Bloom Quotes) I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough (Harold Bloom Quotes) We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light (Harold Bloom Quotes) At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy (Harold Bloom Quotes) Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin (Harold Bloom Quotes) But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society. But in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude (Harold Bloom Quotes)

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