We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

- Harold Bloom

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach…

- Harold Bloom

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

- Harold Bloom

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism wi…

- Harold Bloom

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

- Harold Bloom

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

- Harold Bloom

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

- Harold Bloom

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…

- Harold Bloom

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

- Harold Bloom