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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 133 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 117 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one...

Author: Harold Bloom (1930) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 119 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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