Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Failing, Mediocrity, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Information, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Beautiful, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Mind, Originals, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Pleasure, Reading, Solitude, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Ideology, Judgment, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Extraordinary, Goes On, Hard, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
I don’t believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Aggravation, Believe, Progress, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Joy, Reading, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, Book, Reading, 0 - Harold Bloom Copy
In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring. - Pink Singer
I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not - Coco Chanel Fashion designer · France
I’ve come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas. - Richard Misrach Photographer · USA
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. - Anne Bronte Novelist · England
