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The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.
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Harold Bloom
Age: 89 †
Born: 1930
Born: July 11
Died: 2019
Died: October 14
Journalist
Literary Critic
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New York City
New York
Harold Irving Bloom
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
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One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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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.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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Information is endlessly available to us where shall wisdom be found?
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The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
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I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
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You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
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There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
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The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
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