"The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet & educator
Subject CriticismHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet & educator
"The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet & educator
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later." - Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American expatriate poet & critic
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) , British politician
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." - Mark Twain (1835-1910), US humorist, novelist, short story author
"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" - Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish composer & patriot
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