It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
Harold BloomNot a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
Harold BloomI have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Harold Bloom