March 28th, 2009 / 12:59 pm
 Power Quote

Power Quote: Harold Bloom

If the essence of poetry is invention, as Dr. Johnson rightly maintained, then the classical Walpurgis Night shows us what poetry essentially is: a controlled wildness, a radical originality that subsumes previous strength, and, most of all, the creation of new myth.

— The Western Canon , “Goethe’s Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical Poem”

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10 Comments

  1. March 28th, 2009 / 5:54 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

      Bloom.

  2. March 28th, 2009 / 1:54 pm Nathan (Nate) Tyree—

      Bloom.

  3. March 28th, 2009 / 5:58 pm Rauan—

      puts me in the mood to mud wrestle

  4. March 28th, 2009 / 1:58 pm Rauan—

      puts me in the mood to mud wrestle

  5. March 28th, 2009 / 7:29 pm Janey Smith—

      I think I have to pee. Thank you, Justin.

  6. March 28th, 2009 / 3:29 pm Janey Smith—

      I think I have to pee. Thank you, Justin.

  7. March 28th, 2009 / 9:10 pm james yeh—

      what a pic. what a quote. “a controlled wildness”. that’s a plate you can eat off of.

  8. March 28th, 2009 / 5:10 pm james yeh—

      what a pic. what a quote. “a controlled wildness”. that’s a plate you can eat off of.

  9. March 29th, 2009 / 1:25 am jereme—

      holy shit look at that bush on the right. that girl must be japanese.

  10. March 28th, 2009 / 9:25 pm jereme—

      holy shit look at that bush on the right. that girl must be japanese.