Harold Bloom Quotes

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

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Love
  • Way
  • Special

• My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Me
  • Look
  • Everything

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Latin
  • Train
  • Arts

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Business
  • Always

• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Spirit
  • Blood

• Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Competition
  • Talent
  • Back

• I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Attention
  • Talent

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Most

• I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • People
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Day
  • Trump

• I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.`

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Fashion
  • Thrown
  • Winds of taste

• Penises, toe knuckles, bellybuttons, vaginas. Sam felt the expansiveness of his own desires as he sensed, stretching away on all sides of him, an endless forest of jutting elbows, erect penises, stiff nostril hairs, clitoral flaps, quivering eyelids, testicles round as ice cream scoops, and pert feisty nipples – a wonderful wilderness he could get lost in and explore for the rest of his life.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Wonderful
  • Forest
  • Desires

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• Forgiveness.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Love
  • Firsts
  • Forgiveness

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• 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
  • Never
  • Give
  • Encouragement