Quote by Harold Bloom
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The s

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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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom

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Future
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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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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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teacher
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Chicagos neighborhoods have always been this citys greatest strength. – Jane Byrne

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Im probably the least flexible athlete youll find. When it comes to yoga, I cant get in the positions and I cant hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. Its a pretty good workout. – Steve Blake

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Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And thats not just measured in words or gestures. – Jennifer M. Granholm

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