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Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

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

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  1. I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. – John Kennedy Toole
  2. There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – Harold Bloom
  3. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. – Harold Bloom
  4. Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. – Harold Bloom
  5. Everything that can be invented has been invented. – Charles H Duell
  6. Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. – Allan Bloom
  7. 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
  8. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
  9. We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom
  10. Originality must compound with inheritance. – Harold Bloom
  11. The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. – Harold Bloom
  12. Emily ????inson sublimely unnames even the blanks. – Harold Bloom
  13. The inventor knows HOW to borrow. – Harold Bloom
  14. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. – Harold Bloom
  15. Reviewing bad books is bad for the character -“ WH Auden – Harold Bloom
  16. Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes – Harold Bloom
  17. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
  18. All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life. – Harold Bloom
  19. Harold Bloom weeps for me. – Christian Bauman
  20. We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. – Harold Bloom
  21. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – Harold Bloom
  22. Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom
  23. Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. – Harold Bloom
  24. 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
  25. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily. – Harold Bloom
  26. A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom
  27. Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human. – Harold Bloom
  28. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. – Harold Bloom
  29. 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
  30. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom
  31. What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. – Harold Bloom
  32. The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. – Harold Bloom
  33. Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom
  34. Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom
  35. Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
  36. At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom
  37. Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom. – Debasish Mridha
  38. A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to peer out. – EM Forster
  39. A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. – Leonora Carrington

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