Criticism Quote by Octavio Paz Download Open image “Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.” — Octavio Paz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criticism Critics Grammar Social
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous. ("The Blue Bouquet")” — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Two bodies face to face Are at times two waves And the night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face Are sometimes two… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each other's mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other's company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
