“ Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ”
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“ (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God. ”
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“ Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. ”
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“ (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God. ”
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“ (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God. ”
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“ There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. ”
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“ Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ”
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“ There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. ”
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“ Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ”
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“ We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. ”
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“ We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ”
- Harold Bloom- Copy
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“ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ”
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“ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ”
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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 without Stalin. ”
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“ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ”
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“ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. ”
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. ”
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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. ”
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