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> [“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/criticism-is-like-politics-if-you-don-t-make-your-own-you-are-by/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

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## More by Annie Finch

> [“A Blessing on the Poets Patient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker, Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover, Sharer and saver, muser and acher, You who are open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/a-blessing-on-the-poets-patient-earth-digger-impatient-fire-maker/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

> [“After all, what is lyric but the seamless fusion of formal control and passionate conviction, in the service of the expression of personal experience?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/after-all-what-is-lyric-but-the-seamless-fusion-of-formal-control-and/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

> [“I feel the nights stretching away thousands long behind the days till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/i-feel-the-nights-stretching-away-thousands-long-behind-the-days-till/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

> [“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/criticism-is-like-politics-if-you-don-t-make-your-own-you-are-by/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

> [“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/criticism-is-to-poetry-as-air-is-to-a-noise-it-allows-it-to-be-heard/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

> [“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-finch/the-next-time-you-hear-someone-in-a-workshop-remarking-on-how-good-a/)

[Annie Finch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-finch/)

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