Quote by Harold Bloom
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such i

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

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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom

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Poetry
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present. – Gustave Flaubert

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My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I dont worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. – Bobby Darin

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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you cant take off. – David Mitchell

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I had been feeling a little rum. I didnt think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I dont know what the future holds, if anything. – Maggie Smith

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