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title: "1 Denouncing Telling Quotes By Dan Chiasson"
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> [The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/the-issue-is-that-when-you-re-a-critic-it-s-hard-to-tell-the/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

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## More by Dan Chiasson

> [I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/i-seem-to-thrive-by-destroying-the-last-thing-i-did-in-a-kind-of/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/i-was-never-trying-to-be-funny-being-funny-feels-to-me-like-an/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/i-treat-myself-as-one-of-the-sources-and-again-i-think-that-s/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/i-write-to-get-myself-writing-that-and-read-wallace-stevens-an/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/the-issue-is-that-when-you-re-a-critic-it-s-hard-to-tell-the/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/one-problem-with-writing-on-the-computer-as-i-do-is-that-the-page-is/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [“If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it sex? Or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/if-you-can-orbit-the-planet-why-can-t-you-see-what-makes-the-human/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel most fully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/i-feel-most-myself-when-i-m-reading-but-by-that-i-don-t-mean-that-i-m/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/the-main-thing-in-poetry-criticism-is-that-i-have-all-these-opinions/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/it-s-often-said-that-elephants-are-the-most-human-of-animals-there-s/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [“The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/the-most-significant-events-bishop-seems-to-argue-are-destined-to/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/i-do-care-about-the-consequences-of-being-negative-toward-people-who/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/if-you-are-made-for-flight-intended-for-it-you-had-better-find-a/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

> [The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-chiasson/the-events-in-america-now-have-the-quality-of-things-you-would-find/)

[Dan Chiasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-chiasson/)

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