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Harold Bloom quotes

American Critic July 11, 1930

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Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism Harold Bloom
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's 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
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
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
Harold Bloom quote: "I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even..."
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. Harold Bloom
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
Harold Bloom quote: "Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like..."
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. Harold Bloom
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
Harold Bloom quote: "At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our..."
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "Shakespeare is universal."
Shakespeare is universal. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it..."
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean."
No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean."
No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails."
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you..."
Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others. Harold Bloom

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