Quote by Harold Bloom
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can affor

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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strength
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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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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page. – Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. – W. H. Auden

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism. – Orestes Ferrara

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