Famous Harold Bloom Quotes

  • At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom

    At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.– Harold Bloom

  • Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom

    Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket– Harold Bloom

  • Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom

    Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.– Harold Bloom

  • Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom

    Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.– Harold Bloom

  • The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. – Harold Bloom

    The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.– Harold Bloom

  • What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. – Harold Bloom

    What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.– Harold Bloom

  • Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom

    Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.– Harold Bloom

  • It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory. – Harold Bloom

    It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.– Harold Bloom

  • Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. – Harold Bloom

    Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.– Harold Bloom

  • Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human. – Harold Bloom

    Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.– Harold Bloom