Criticism Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— William Shenstone

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their…

— Randall Jarell

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

— Erica Jong

“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read…

— Jasper Sole

Honest criticism is not direct war on the poet but upon the poetry.

— RMKATTA

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

— George Saintsbury