Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
– Harold Bloom
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- Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
- 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
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. – Joyce Carol Oates
- The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. – Gregory Maguire
- Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
- Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason. – Thiruman Archunan
- 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
- Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
- We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom
- Originality must compound with inheritance. – Harold Bloom
- The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. – Harold Bloom
- Emily ????inson sublimely unnames even the blanks. – Harold Bloom
- The inventor knows HOW to borrow. – Harold Bloom
- Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. – Harold Bloom
- King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. – Harold Bloom
- Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. – Harold Bloom
- Reviewing bad books is bad for the character -“ WH Auden – Harold Bloom
- Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes – Harold Bloom
- All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life. – Harold Bloom
- Harold Bloom weeps for me. – Christian Bauman
- We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. – Harold Bloom
- Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – Harold Bloom
- Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. – Harold Bloom
- There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – Harold Bloom
- Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom
- Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. – 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
- A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom
- Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human. – Harold Bloom
- Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. – Harold Bloom
- Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom
- What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. – Harold Bloom
- The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. – Harold Bloom
- Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom
- Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom
- Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
- At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person – Bob Proctor