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When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after
the works of the author who has written read more
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after
the works of the author who has written them, and by that means
discover what it is he likes in a composition.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own read more
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
[Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]
Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
[Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,
They damn those authors whom they never read.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,
They damn those authors whom they never read.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore
they turn critics.