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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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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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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – 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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I certainly cant speak for all cultures or all societies, but its clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. Its not part of the cultural mainstream. – Mark Strand

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France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire

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I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897, spoken b

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Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed. – James Schwartz

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