I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. Harold Bloom futureliterarystate Change image and share on social
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. Harold Bloom chaucercrucialexclude Change image and share on social
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. Harold Bloom failsucceed Change image and 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
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
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. Harold Bloom acceptbadlychange share on social
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 begincenturycommon 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
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
