Famous Harold Bloom Quotes
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality– Harold Bloom
Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.– Harold Bloom
Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.– Harold Bloom
Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.– Harold Bloom
There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.– Harold Bloom
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.– Harold Bloom
Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.– Harold Bloom
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.– Harold Bloom