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

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

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  1. Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. – Harold Bloom
  2. Reviewing bad books is bad for the character -“ WH Auden – Harold Bloom
  3. In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an accomplishment while being narcissistic is a failure. – Amitav Chowdhury
  5. Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  6. Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. – CS Lewis
  7. it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. – Muriel Spark
  8. As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values. – Dubravka Ugrei
  9. Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. – Harold Bloom
  10. The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. – Harold Bloom
  11. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  12. To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh
  13. All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment. – Matthew Donnelly
  14. If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude. – Matthew Donnelly
  15. Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
  16. Autonomy isn’t the opposite of accountability – it’s the pathway to it. – Daniel H Pink
  17. For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love. – William Paul Young
  18. It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired. – Angela Phillips
  19. The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness. – Peter Watts
  20. Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration – Neil Postman
  21. 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
  22. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
  23. We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom
  24. Originality must compound with inheritance. – Harold Bloom
  25. The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. – Harold Bloom
  26. Emily ????inson sublimely unnames even the blanks. – Harold Bloom
  27. The inventor knows HOW to borrow. – Harold Bloom
  28. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. – Harold Bloom
  29. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. – Harold Bloom
  30. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
  31. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – Harold Bloom
  32. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. – Harold Bloom
  33. There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – Harold Bloom
  34. Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom
  35. 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
  36. A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom
  37. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom
  38. Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom
  39. Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom
  40. Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom

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