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“ Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. ”

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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

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(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

~ Harold Bloom

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There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

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Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

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