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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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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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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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. – Henry Miller

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It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. – Chow Ching

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You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically. – Hector Elizondo

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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. – Bill Gates

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The dust and odour of ancient libraries, the gloom of those crypts of literature, have… all the charm of freshest images and freshest poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. – Dag Hammarskjold

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