Quote by Harold Bloom
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature

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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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. – Harold Bloom

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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. – Harold Bloom

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. – Carol Ann Duffy

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. – Jose Marti

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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. – Stephen Spender, about Rainer Maria Rilke

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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. – Bryant H. McGill

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Run to meet the future or its going to run you down. – Anthony J. DAngelo

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