Criticism Quote by Kenneth Koch

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but…

— Harold Bloom

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

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm…

— Diane Wakoski

I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there…

— Derek Walcott

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to…

— Ben Brantley

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing…

— Christian Karlson Stead

Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I…

— Pauline Kael

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Nobody likes criticism but I think in my career, for the most part, I've taken it reasonably well.

— Martin O'Neill