Recently Added Quotes by Harold Bloom

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• No one yet has managed to be postShakespearean.

  Harold Bloom#Shakespeare 16

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• Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

  Harold Bloom#Solitude 24

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• At our present bad moment we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

  Harold Bloom#Individuality 16

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• How to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Why very quickly to begin with and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it Presumably if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better Rowling will have to do.

  Harold Bloom#Harry potter 21

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• No one has yet managed to be postShakespearean.

  Harold Bloom#Shakespeare 20

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• We read frequently if unknowingly in quest of a mind more original than our own.

  Harold Bloom#Reading 26

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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.

  Harold Bloom#Believe 34

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• In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

  Harold Bloom#Critics 20

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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.

  Harold Bloom#Deeply 29

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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.

  Harold Bloom#Color 34

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