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

Other quotes by Harold Bloom

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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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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Books
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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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alone
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If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals. – Robert Conklin

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strength

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. – Robert Kiyosaki

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strength

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. Its one of the reasons we have campaigns. – Tammy Bruce

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strength

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we dont want to downplay it. – Gerhard Schroder

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strength

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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Humorous

I had so many offers after True Blood for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Balls vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And Ive always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and Ive never really had the chance to do that. – Michelle Forbes

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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. – Maria Montessori

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Body

Doesnt matter whether its a teen girl whos pregnant, hasnt told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimers. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day. – Mike Huckabee

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teen