I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – Harold Bloom

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – Harold Bloom
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
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