I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works. - Harold Bloom

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Name: Harold Bloom
Born: 11 July 1930. Died: 14 October 2019
Profession: Critic | Author |

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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

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Harold Bloom quotes

Author's Biography:
Name: Harold Bloom
Born: 11 July 1930. Died: 14 October 2019
Profession: Critic | Author |

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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

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Harold Bloom quotes

Author's Biography: Name: Harold Bloom Born: 11 July 1930. Died: 14 October 2019 Profession: Critic | Author |

Related Authors Edmund Wilson | Anne Tyler | Ezra Pound | Hamilton Wright Mabie | Chinweizu Ibekwe | Walter Benjamin | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

If you work hard enough, you won't hear any noise.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Pain is the precursor to change.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

My word is my bond and this has always been the bedrock on which my life is based.

I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works. - Femi Otedola quotes

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Sincerity is the way to Heaven.

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Author's Biography:
Name: Harold Bloom
Born: 11 July 1930. Died: 14 October 2019
Profession: Critic | Author |

Related Authors
Edmund Wilson | Anne Tyler | Ezra Pound | Hamilton Wright Mabie | Chinweizu Ibekwe | Walter Benjamin | Arianna Huffington | Arundhati Roy |