Quote by Harold Bloom
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we

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 would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – 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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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. – Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. – Will Durant

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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe its irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. – Conrad Bums

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