Harold Bloom

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

— Harold Bloom

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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Shakespeare is universal. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#universal

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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

— Harold Bloom

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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

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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

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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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