"I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist."

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Source : "And now for a world government" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. December 9, 2008.

Harold Bloom

#Believe Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Rivals Quotes

“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.”
“In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.”
“As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.”
“Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”
“I love recording music.”
“Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply,”
“They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Clarity affords focus.”

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