“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.”
— Harold Bloom
Author: Harold Bloom
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“What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.”
— Harold Bloom
Author: Harold Bloom
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“I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.”
— Harold Bloom
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“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; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.”
— Harold Bloom
Author: Harold Bloom
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