Citas de Harold Bloom

• Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  Harold Bloom

  Mediocrity, Want, Failing

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• Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

  Harold Bloom

  Information, Found, Available

  "Why read this?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2000.

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• The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

  Harold Bloom

  Education, Reality, Self

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else.

  Harold Bloom

  Lectura, escritura, personas

  "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.

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• We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

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  Mind, Originals, Ifs

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• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Knowledge, Self

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

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  Beautiful, Paragraph, Prose

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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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  Believe, Writing, Share

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

  Harold Bloom

  Doe, World

  "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss, biblioklept.org. 1991.

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• To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

  Harold Bloom

  Judgment, Ideology

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Harold Bloom

  Encouragement, Giving, Inheritance

  Harold Bloom (2003). “A Map of Misreading”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  Harold Bloom

  Finals, May, Accepting

  "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages". Book by Harold Bloom, 1994.

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• Leer bien es uno de los mayores placeres que puede proporcionarte la soledad.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Solitude, Pleasure

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

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  World, Knaves, Charlatans

  "Criticism in Society". Interview with Imre Salusinski, 1987.

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• 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

  Sympathy, Criticism, Goes On

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• I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

  Harold Bloom

  Kings, Reading, Sadness

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• It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

  Harold Bloom

  Goes On, Extraordinary, Hard

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• Al final, lo que importa en la literatura es sin duda lo idiosincrásico, lo individual, el sabor o el color de un sufrimiento humano concreto.

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  What Matters, Color, Hygiene

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• We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

  Harold Bloom

  Past, Journey, Three

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

  Harold Bloom

  Loneliness, Fire, Light

  Harold Bloom (2011). “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.

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  Pain, Memories, Struggle

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• We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

  Harold Bloom

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

  Harold Bloom

  Exercise, Self, Capacity

  Harold Bloom (2001). “Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

  Harold Bloom

  Potters, Stones, Ends

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• ...la propia Biblia se lee menos que se predica, se interpreta menos que se blande. Cada vez es más frecuente que los pastores cuelguen un Libro sin encuadernar por los bordes del púlpito cuando se retiran de él. Los miembros de la congregación llevan Biblias a los servicios religiosos; el pastor anuncia un largo pasaje para su sermón y espera a que la gente lo encuentre, luego lee sólo el primer versículo antes de marcharse. El Libro se ha convertido en un talismán.

  Harold Bloom

  Book, Past, Church Service

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