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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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...

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough...

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough...

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am...

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shakespeare is universal.

Shakespeare is universal.

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...

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...

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But...

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But...

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...

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he...

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he...

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

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...

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...

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never...

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never...

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from...

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from...