Life Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“…But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming…

— Thomas Mann

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

“Thus it has come about that our theoretical and critical literature, instead of giving plain, straightforward arguments in which the author at least always…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf