Harold Bloom
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“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
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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
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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
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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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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
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