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Quote by Harold Bloom
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – 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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Books
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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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Knowledge
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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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Other Quotes from
Literary
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This lifes dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

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Literary

The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

Category:
Literary

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Literary

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost

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Literary

Random Quotes

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didnt endure. – Robin Day

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design

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Ancestry, Ancestors

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you cant beat them, and if you cant beat them, join them, as they say. As Ive got older Ive become very interested in that part of the work. – Lars von Trier

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Fear

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public. – Steven Squyres

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Trust