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.

Harold Bloom
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More Quotes By Harold Bloom
  1. (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

  2. Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  3. (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

  4. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

  5. Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

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