Famous Harold Bloom Quotes

  • A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom

    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

    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

    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

    Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.– Harold Bloom

  • Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom

    Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.– Harold Bloom

  • There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – 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

    Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.– Harold Bloom

  • We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. – Harold Bloom

    We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.– Harold Bloom

  • Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – 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

    Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.– Harold Bloom