Believe Quote by Harold Bloom

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true…

— Helen Vendler

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Honest criticism is not direct war on the poet but upon the poetry.

— RMKATTA

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

— Theophile Gautier

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

— Brian Lumley

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by…

— George Steiner

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

Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in…

— Robert Hass

A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham