Harold Bloom Professions : Literary critic Born : July 11, 1930 Browse All Authors Top 84 quotes by Harold Bloom We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. Harold Bloom If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. Harold Bloom live go wish work If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. Harold Bloom great anxiety work people 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 page call any strength Similar Authors Bliss Perry literary-critic Irving Howe literary-critic Diana Trilling literary-critic Daphne Merkin literary-critic Henry Louis Gates literary-critic Christopher Ricks literary-critic All Authors