What did Harold Bloom mean by: We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. - 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harold Bloom, 0 - Harold Bloom
+ 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
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
