"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."
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Quotes by Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was a towering figure in American literary criticism, renowned for his profound insights into the Western literary canon. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrants, Bloom's passion for literature blossomed in his youth, leading him to an illustrious academic career, including a distinguished tenure at Yale University. His influential works, such as "The Anxiety of Influence," reshaped literary criticism, emphasizing the complexities of authorship and creativity. Bloom's legacy endures through his provocative ideas that continue to inspire readers and scholars alike.
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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."
Harold Bloom"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
"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