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“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know… (Bloom)

On December 17, 2014November 19, 2014 By Christina's WordsIn Quote

“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.”

– Harold Bloom

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