Connotation Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.”

— Harold Evans

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature…

— Harold Bloom

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham

Don't get me started on critics.

— Beverly Sills

“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out…

— Jasper Siegel Seneschal

Critics are already made.

— Lord Byron

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself…

— Paul Fry

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.

— Robert Lepage

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

— Mason Cooley

Taken as a whole, the work of Marx, at the same times it shows the thesis of the growing pauperization of the non-propertied classes,…

— Fernando Haddad