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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties,
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"Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems"

- Harold Bloom

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This quote by Harold Bloom talks to the value of having a passion for reading in order to be able to effectively slam literature. Flower suggests that this enthusiasm can come at any age, even in one's twenties, however it is important to have a love for reading in order to have the ability to appropriately review it. Blossom particularly mentions poems, however this sentiment can be used to any kind of literature. In order to be able to efficiently slam a work, one should have a deep understanding of the material and an enthusiasm for it. Without this enthusiasm, criticism can be shallow and uninformed. Bloom's quote is a tip of the significance of having a love for reading in order to have the ability to correctly review literature.

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Harold Bloom This quote is written / told by Harold Bloom between July 11, 1930 and October 14, 2019. He was a famous Critic from USA. The author also have 26 other quotes.

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