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Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.
— Harold Bloom
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
— Harold Bloom
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
— Harold Bloom
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
— Harold Bloom
Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
— Harold Bloom
I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
— Harold Bloom
Real reading is a lonely activity.
— Harold Bloom
The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
— Harold Bloom
There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
— Harold Bloom
Beckett . . . Joyce . . . Proust . . . Shakespeare
— Harold Bloom
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
— Harold Bloom
Shakespeare is universal.
— Harold Bloom
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
— Harold Bloom
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
— Harold Bloom
Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.
— Harold Bloom
A political reading of Shakespeare is bound to be less interesting than a Shakespearean reading of politics[.]
— Harold Bloom
The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.
— Harold Bloom
Originality must compound with inheritance.
— Harold Bloom
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
— Harold Bloom
You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.
— Harold Bloom
Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
— Harold Bloom
The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves.
— Harold Bloom
Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.
— Harold Bloom
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
— Harold Bloom
For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.
— Harold Bloom
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
— Harold Bloom
Oscar Wilde's "beautiful untrue things" that save the imagination from falling into "careless habits of accuracy.
— Harold Bloom
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
— Harold Bloom
One reads for oneself and for strangers.
— Harold Bloom
Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.
— Harold Bloom
No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.
— Harold Bloom
American Religionists, when I questioned them, frequently said that falling in love was affirming again Christ's love for each of them.
— Harold Bloom
Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.
— Harold Bloom
Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one.
— Harold Bloom
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
— Harold Bloom
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
— Harold Bloom
One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength.
— Harold Bloom
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
Harold Bloom weeps for me.
— Christian Bauman
The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.
— Harold Bloom
Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.
— Harold Bloom
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
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
— M.H. Abrams
We read, I think, to repair our solitude, though pragmatically the better we read, the more solitary we become.
— Harold Bloom
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
— Harold Bloom
What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.
— Harold Bloom
King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
— Harold Bloom
Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.
— Harold Bloom
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
— Harold Bloom
seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall.
— Harold Bloom
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
— Harold Bloom
No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.
— Harold Bloom
Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
— Harold Bloom
All of us are, as Mr. Stevens said, "condemned to be that inescapable animal, ourselves.
— Harold Bloom
Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
— Harold Bloom
Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.
— Harold Bloom
Such a reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.
— Harold Bloom
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
— Harold Bloom
The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.
— Harold Bloom
To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.
— Harold Bloom
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
— Harold Bloom
The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.
— Harold Bloom
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
— Harold Bloom
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
— Harold Bloom
Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.
— Harold Bloom
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
— Harold Bloom
Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
— Harold Bloom
Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.
— Harold Bloom
Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.
— Harold Bloom
