Critical Quote by Michael Longley

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

— Cindy Sherman

You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no…

— Robert Cormier

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and…

— Casey Affleck

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's…

— David Duchovny

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

— Edward Albee

I think 'Ratcatcher' broke even as a film, but it got a good critical response. I think that people knew that it wasn't going…

— Lynne Ramsay

“Dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good…” The poem by…

— Lori Ryan

“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot do the…

— Goldie Nanwani

A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental…

— Randall Jarrell

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has…

— Alasdair Gray