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Harold Bloom Quote: “What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.”

151. “What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.”

152. “The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life, but the aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to all the ancient Greeks, and to Burckhardt and Nietzsche, who recovered this truth.”

153. “Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life, but the aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to all the ancient Greeks, and to Burckhardt and Nietzsche, who recovered this truth.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.”

154. “Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “The pre-Socratic aphorism – ethos is the daemon – can be translated as “character is fate.” In drama, character is action. Shakespeare, too capacious for any formula, leads me to a rival aphorism: Pathos also is the daemon, which could be rendered as “personality is our destiny.” In Shakespearean theatricalism, personality is suffering. Action, Wordsworth wrote, is momentary, while suffering is permanent, obscure, dark, and shares the nature of infinity.”

155. “The pre-Socratic aphorism – ethos is the daemon – can be translated as “character is fate.” In drama, character is action. Shakespeare, too capacious for any formula, leads me to a rival aphorism: Pathos also is the daemon, which could be rendered as “personality is our destiny.” In Shakespearean theatricalism, personality is suffering. Action, Wordsworth wrote, is momentary, while suffering is permanent, obscure, dark, and shares the nature of infinity.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “The idea that you benefit the insulted and injured by reading someone of their own origins rather than reading Shakespeare is one of the oddest illusions ever promoted by or in our schools.”

156. “The idea that you benefit the insulted and injured by reading someone of their own origins rather than reading Shakespeare is one of the oddest illusions ever promoted by or in our schools.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.”

157. “Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.”

158. “Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Great styles are sufficient for canonicity because they possess the power of contamination, and contamination is the pragmatic test for canon formation.”

159. “Great styles are sufficient for canonicity because they possess the power of contamination, and contamination is the pragmatic test for canon formation.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “I think that the self, in its quest to be free and solitary, ultimately reads with one aim only: to confront greatness. That confrontation scarcely masks the desire to join greatness, which is the basis of the aesthetic experience once called the Sublime: the quest for a transcendence of limits.”

160. “I think that the self, in its quest to be free and solitary, ultimately reads with one aim only: to confront greatness. That confrontation scarcely masks the desire to join greatness, which is the basis of the aesthetic experience once called the Sublime: the quest for a transcendence of limits.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “I again recall provoking resentment by dubbing the American bard “a male lesbian,” much as Shakespeare was when writing the sonnets.”

161. “I again recall provoking resentment by dubbing the American bard “a male lesbian,” much as Shakespeare was when writing the sonnets.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “From the time I was a very tiny child until now, approaching the end, I cannot conceive of life without the highest literature. How could one think? How could one feel?”

162. “From the time I was a very tiny child until now, approaching the end, I cannot conceive of life without the highest literature. How could one think? How could one feel?”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Whitman’s art: to promise absolute self-revelation and give us fresh gestures of evasion, hesitation, concealment. Better thus, though Walt proclaimed: “I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself.” Stevens learned from Whitman “the intricate evasions of as.”

163. “Whitman’s art: to promise absolute self-revelation and give us fresh gestures of evasion, hesitation, concealment. Better thus, though Walt proclaimed: “I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself.” Stevens learned from Whitman “the intricate evasions of as.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “You can’t think at all clearly or well without memory and it matters a great deal what you remember. And If what you remember is mediocre stuff, you are not going to be able to think very well. And if as a nation we stop thinking well, someday we will yet cease to be a democracy. It really matters reading the best that has been written ever, the best that has been thought ever.”

164. “You can’t think at all clearly or well without memory and it matters a great deal what you remember. And If what you remember is mediocre stuff, you are not going to be able to think very well. And if as a nation we stop thinking well, someday we will yet cease to be a democracy. It really matters reading the best that has been written ever, the best that has been thought ever.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Knowledge of what? If, as Epicurus insisted, the what is unknowable, Walt’s knowledge is a personal gnosis, in which the knower himself is known by whatever can be known.”

165. “Knowledge of what? If, as Epicurus insisted, the what is unknowable, Walt’s knowledge is a personal gnosis, in which the knower himself is known by whatever can be known.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “There is nothing that is more profoundly healing than the act of solitary reading provided that what is being read is indeed permanent, deep, lasting work. Work that calls for all of your faculties in response. Work that calls you out of your own deep as it were. Work that transforms you. That is to say Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Jane Austen. We know who this authors are, we neglect them I think, at our own potential debasement.”

166. “There is nothing that is more profoundly healing than the act of solitary reading provided that what is being read is indeed permanent, deep, lasting work. Work that calls for all of your faculties in response. Work that calls you out of your own deep as it were. Work that transforms you. That is to say Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Jane Austen. We know who this authors are, we neglect them I think, at our own potential debasement.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Everyone has, or should have, a desert island list against that day when, fleeing one’s enemies, one is cast ashore, or when one limps away, all warfare done, to pass the rest of one’s time quietly reading. If.”

167. “Everyone has, or should have, a desert island list against that day when, fleeing one’s enemies, one is cast ashore, or when one limps away, all warfare done, to pass the rest of one’s time quietly reading. If.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Why read, if what you read will not enrich mind or spirit or personality?”

168. “Why read, if what you read will not enrich mind or spirit or personality?”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Attempting to read many of the works set forth as resentment’s alternatives to the Canon, I reflect that these aspirants must believe they have spoken prose all their lives, or else that their sincere passions are already poems, requiring only a little overwriting.”

169. “Attempting to read many of the works set forth as resentment’s alternatives to the Canon, I reflect that these aspirants must believe they have spoken prose all their lives, or else that their sincere passions are already poems, requiring only a little overwriting.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Is becoming wise an act of knowledge? For Nietzsche, the greatest thoughts were the greatest actions. Thinking in and through metaphors, Shakespeare gives us persons who act with titanic self-destructiveness, incarnate sublimity:.”

170. “Is becoming wise an act of knowledge? For Nietzsche, the greatest thoughts were the greatest actions. Thinking in and through metaphors, Shakespeare gives us persons who act with titanic self-destructiveness, incarnate sublimity:.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “The subtlest element in this subtlest of novels is the call upon the reader’s own power of memory to match the persistence and intensity of the yearning that Anne Elliot is too stoical to express directly.”

171. “The subtlest element in this subtlest of novels is the call upon the reader’s own power of memory to match the persistence and intensity of the yearning that Anne Elliot is too stoical to express directly.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “A poet who equates his soul with the fourfold metaphor of night, death, the mother, and the sea is thinking figuratively as fiercely as did the Hermeticists and the Kabbalists.”

172. “A poet who equates his soul with the fourfold metaphor of night, death, the mother, and the sea is thinking figuratively as fiercely as did the Hermeticists and the Kabbalists.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “These days readers shun difficulty, because they are so desperately distracted. The Age of the Screen jeopardizes the art of the novel.”

173. “These days readers shun difficulty, because they are so desperately distracted. The Age of the Screen jeopardizes the art of the novel.”

— Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom Quote: “Poets and critics alike seek to convert opinion into knowledge, but this means opinion in the legal and not the public sense. What is it you know when you recognize a voice?”

174. “Poets and critics alike seek to convert opinion into knowledge, but this means opinion in the legal and not the public sense. What is it you know when you recognize a voice?”

— Harold Bloom

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