Critics Quote by Theophile Gautier

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

— Erica Jong

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

— Bobby Lashley

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature…

— Harold Bloom

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance…

— Harold Bloom

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

— James MacDonald

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place…

— Margaret Atwood

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist