Critics Quote by Alexander Pope

Critics are the fool who discuss the wise

— Leo Tolstoy

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

— John Crowe Ransom

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals…

— R.M. Engelhardt

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not…

— Jonathan Swift

“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I,…

— John Donne

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson