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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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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Criticism in the universities, Ill have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. Its Stalinism without Stalin. – Harold Bloom

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Sympathy
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean Im told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. – Harold Bloom

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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. – Euripides

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. – Jacques Maritain

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The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt. – Derek Fisher

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The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. – Daniel Nathans

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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. Thats why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. – Dennis Prager

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Many things have been said about what happened, but I dont know either. Maybe someday. One thing Im sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today. – Pete Best

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Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit. – George Fox

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Im glad about whats happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didnt like music. They didnt trust musicians. They wanted something else from it. – James Taylor

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