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Harold Bloom
American
Critic
Born:
Jul 11
,
1930
Better
Criticism
People
Think
Will
You
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Harold Bloom
Future
Say
States
Would
No Future
Studies
Literary
United
United States
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
Harold Bloom
Alone
Heart
Solitude
Society
Consider
Ourselves
Days
Knows
End
Being
In The End
Mean
Us
Lives
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
Harold Bloom
World
Better
Worse
More
Does
Get
Gets
Just
Place
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Harold Bloom
Matters
Tell
Critics
Finest
Cry
Read
Hears
Human
Full
Why
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
Harold Bloom
Take
Oxymoron
Successful
Therapy
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
Stage
Everyone
Everywhere
Shakespeare
He
Put
True
Feels
Him
Exists
Author
Languages
Multicultural
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
Me
School
Negative
Sense
Awareness
Think
Thinking
Philosophical
Through
Mode
Common
Which
Deconstruction
Theology
Technical
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Harold Bloom
Love
You
Passion
Criticism
Reading
Fall
Starts
Must
Adolescence
Poems
Come
Real
Real Passion
Your
Twenties
Even
Start
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
Harold Bloom
You
Nothing
Think
Say
About
Something
Shakespeare
He
Contamination
Learned
Because
Freud
Might
Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom
Shakespeare
Universal
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
Harold Bloom
You
Yourself
People
First
Before
Beginning
Study
Supposed
Judaism
Make
Era
Tradition
End
Very
Essence
Common
Hebrew
Which
Century
Holy
Notion
Nowhere
Present
Second
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
Strength
Poem
Poems
Exclude
Call
Mostly
Any
Page
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