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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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. – Luther Burbank

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To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good. – Peter Singer

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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