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As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

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.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.


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