One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.
Harold BloomThe art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
Harold Bloom(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
Harold BloomTags: religion weather wallace-stevens
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.
Harold BloomTags: poetry god religion weather wallace-stevens
Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.
Harold BloomTags: marxism
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
Harold BloomTags: reading books books-reading
[José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.
Harold BloomTags: obituary jose-saramago
If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.
Harold BloomWe'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?
Harold BloomEveryone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
Harold BloomTags: inspiration
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