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Harold Bloom Quote: “The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”

151. “The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”

— Harold Bloom

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

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

— Harold Bloom

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

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

— 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.”

154. “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: “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.”

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

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

— Harold Bloom

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

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

— 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.”

159. “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.”

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

161. “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: “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.”

162. “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

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