Adolescence Quote by Harold Bloom

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people…

— Kenneth Koch

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty…

— Robert Adamson

“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see…

— Annie Finch

The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I…

— Dan Chiasson

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating…

— Harold Bloom

“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

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is…

— Edward Hirsch

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture…

— Gaston Bachelard

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place…

— Margaret Atwood

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