Harold Bloom Quotes - Page 2

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Harold Bloom

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Harold Bloom

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Harold Bloom

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Harold Bloom

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.

Harold Bloom

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

Harold Bloom

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Harold Bloom

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

Harold Bloom