Harold Bloom Quotes
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Bloom, Harold. "The Art of Criticism No. 1." Interview by Antonio Weiss. The Paris Review, vol. 33, no. 118, Spring 1991.
Although this principle is accepted in entertainment, business, sports, science or medicine, politicians cannot seem to accept Caesar’s principle and not only never expect failure but are often in denial and cannot even accept it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the great exception to this rule. See {642798} and {32356} for some of the examples of his unusual view.
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." Following the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. During his lifetime, he edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
