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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human QUOTES

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human QUOTES

1 " ...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. "

― Harold Bloom , Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

2 " We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran. "

― Harold Bloom , Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

3 " We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist. "

― Harold Bloom , Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

4 " Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence. "

― Harold Bloom , Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

5 " According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire. "

― Harold Bloom , Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human