Age Quote by Walter Pater

“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations, or in…

— George Bernard Shaw

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I can’t bear these accounts I read in the Times and elsewhere of these poetry slams, in which various young men and women in…

— Harold Bloom

“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.”

— Leonard Baskin

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an…

— Rebecca West

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

— Janet Echelman

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience…

— David Foster Wallace

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the…

— Gunter Grass

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To…

— Joanne Harris

“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom rings across…

— Gary L. Bauer