"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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Sympathy
― Harold Bloom
More From Harold Bloom
- "But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude."
- "What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."
- "The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
More In Sympathy
- "Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."― Angelina Grimke
- "Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- "I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."― Fritz Sauckel