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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.
— Harold Bloom Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate
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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
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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
— Harold Bloom
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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
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
— Harold Bloom
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
— Harold Bloom
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