Quote by Harold Bloom
Criticism in the universities, Ill have to admit, has entered a ph

Criticism in the universities, Ill have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. Its Stalinism without Stalin. – Harold Bloom

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom

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teacher
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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom

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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. – John Galsworthy

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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. – Queen Elizabeth II

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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. – James Russell Lowell

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I didnt feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyones leg. – Peter Storey

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