Top 7 Harold Bloom Quotes

American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)

Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and writer. He was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, a former Professor of English at New York University, and the author of over twenty-five books.

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Alternative Names: Harold Irving Bloom

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

The outward limit of human achievement.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Top 7 Harold Bloom Quotes

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