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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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – 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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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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