I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Harold Bloom


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No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés shakespeare



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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés individuality autonomy



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It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

Harold Bloom


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Leggiamo per porre rimedio alla nostra solitudine, anche se poi, di fatto, la nostra solitudine cresce parallelamente all'aumentare e all'approfondirsi delle nostre letture. Non riuscirei proprio a considerare il leggere come un vizio, ma va concesso che non si tratta neppure di una virtù.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés leggere lettura solitudine virtù vizio



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No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés shakespeare



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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Harold Bloom


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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Harold Bloom


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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés reading humanity literature aesthetics



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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

Harold Bloom

Mots clés reading poetry oscar-wilde canon



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