Authors Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of…

— Peggy Randall-Martin

“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it…

— Dale Carnegie

“To those who value words of affirmation, criticism feels like a knife in the heart.”

— Paul E. White

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their…

— Disney PIXAR

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

— John Maxwell

“Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in…

— T.S. Eliot

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolano

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

— Walter Benjamin