Quotes by : Harold Bloom

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that....

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy....

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not....

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is....