We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. - Harold Bloom
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
- Harold Bloom
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? - Harold Bloom
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?
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
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…
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American. - Harold Bloom
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
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
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. - Harold Bloom
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
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
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…
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
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;…
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. - Harold Bloom
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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