Harold Bloom Quotes

I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed.

The outward limit of human achievement.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

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

Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.

Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.