"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic……" — John Crowe Ransom
"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
More Critics Quotes
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's… — Kevin Bacon
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media… — Russell Baker
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
- Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point… — Henry Ward Beecher