Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please…

“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the freedom to…

— Alok Mishra

“Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.”

— Alok Mishra

“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only to be…

— Alok Mishra

“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul itself!”

— Alok Mishra

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective…

— Alok Mishra

“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an emphatic entry…

— Alok Mishra

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”

— Anonymous

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

— Eugene Delacroix

“once heard someone say that criticism is like a nut surrounded by a hard shell. The hard shell represents a projected experience from a…

— Chris Guillebeau

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

— John Mason Brown

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

— Michael Hyatt

“Chances are like criticism; few like to take it, some love to give it, yet most never see it.”

— Carl Henegan

“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.”

— Julian Baggini