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
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 awarenesscommondeconstruction share on social
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. Harold Bloom failsucceed Change image and share on social
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. Harold Bloom badlycorrectivecurrent share on social
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. Harold Bloom badlyplacesenescent Change image and share on social
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. Harold Bloom ceasecriticdeadly Change image and share on social
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Harold Bloom criticcryfine 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
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. Harold Bloom anxietydiscoursegreat share on social
