Originality must compound with inheritance.
– Harold Bloom
Related Quotes:
- Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
- If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors. – Mahatma Gandhi
- 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
- 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
- Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – 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
- Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily. – 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
- 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
- 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
- At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom
- Active-awareness combined with daily active-effort will compound to make a significant difference. – Akiroq Brost
- Our capacity can grow or diminish, and either way, the results compound over time. – Audrey Moralez
- The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices – Darren Hardy
- She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine … – Virginia Woolf
- What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim. – Denham Sutcliffe
- Good and evil both increase at compound interest. – CS Lewis