226 Quotes by Harold Bloom

Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.