“Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” MeanLittlesArtTodayGamesWinningViewsOpinionTomorrowSolitudeApproachCriticismEmptyOppositesInfiniteCleverUselessWorks Of ArtMeaninglessPartisansHardenedLiterary CriticismToday And Tomorrow Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.” IfsWorldMindSoulSidesMemoriesOpinionRichHabitBuiltEmptyInstinctExtremesInstanceSooner Or LaterProbabilityPropositionsStrainAffrontEmpty Souls Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats