If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. Harold Bloom abandonacademyalleviate share on social
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 authorexistfelt Change image and share on social
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 dayendheart share on social
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. Harold Bloom oxymoronsuccessfultherapy Change image and share on social
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. Harold Bloom believecriticcriticism Change image and share on social
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. Harold Bloom colorendflavor Change image and share on social
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 contaminationfreudlearn Change image and share on social
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 adolescencecriticismfall Change image and share on social
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. Harold Bloom declineliterarymyth Change image and share on social
