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Harold Bloom
6 quotes
“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.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Criticism in Society (1987), edited by Imre Salusinski.
“I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with In Depth for CSPAN2 (May 3, 2003), quoted in Katherine Chiljan, 'Bloom Blooper', The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2003), p. 8
“Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Anatomy of Influence (2011), p. 142.
“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.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Anatomy of Influence (2011), p. 142.
“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.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jesus and Yahweh: the names divine (2005), p 10.
“The outward limit of human achievement.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Economist, October 26, 2019, p. 85.