Books Quote by Ezra Pound

“To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.”

— Jordan Carl Curtis

“Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to…

— Oswald Chambers

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolano

“The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to…

— Susan Sontag

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose…

— Rodolfo Costa

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

— Aristotle

“All Criticism is Good Criticism. Learn from it.”

— Jamilia Fair

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury