#iv

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 lives at the heart of a solitude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#being #consider #days #end #heart

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#critic #deadly #encouragement #give #heavy

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. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#am #criticism #entered #goes #i

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. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#believed #critic #criticism #does #exist

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#anxiety #causes #discourse #going #great

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#any #bear #dull #fully #fully alive

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#history #individual #terrible #try #violation

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#also #capacity #contain #crucial #damage

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#academy #alleviate #classes #economically #exploited

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#fact #finds #freud #freudian #gives