Quotes by : Harold Bloom

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between....

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who....

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will....

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

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.

A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be....

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