Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Harold Bloom

Born: July 11, 1930
Died: October 14, 2019 (aged 89)
Bio: Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
Known for:
- The Anxiety of Influence (1973)
- How to read and why (2000)
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998)
Harold Bloom Quotes