Quotes about Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom

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

#Harold Bloom