What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Quote by Harold Bloom

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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it...

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it...

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor...

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor...

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on...

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on...

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one...

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one...

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there...

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there...

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It...

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It...

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally...

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally...

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up...

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up...

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

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

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

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

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

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The...

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The...

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is...

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is...

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us...

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I...

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion...

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion...

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode...

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode...

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways,...

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways,...

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the...

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the...