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“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”

Should Poet Criticism Strings Rough Diamond Pearls Old Fashioned Nuggets

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

Said Past Poetry Literature One Thing Poet Criticism They Said

Author:Philip Larkin

“After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”

World Mean Ends Wanted Poetry Creation Poet Reader Criticism Critics Everyday Determine Prose Interpreter

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Time has nothing to do with the matter.”

Matter Poetry Effort Poet Criticism

Author:Moliere

“One can be well-bred and write bad poetry”

Writing Wells Poetry Poet Criticism

Author:Moliere

“A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.”

Poetry Poet Criticism Mediums Poetry Is Tailors Scissors

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.”

Ifs Poet Fine Genius Criticism Criticize Odds Reckoning

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.”

May Poet Criticism Universal Critics

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.”

Art Beautiful Form Spirit Poetry Process Creation Poet Criticism Impression Realms Tone Satire Works Of Art Representation Citizenship Critique

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.”

Men Forever Sea Poet Criticism Critics Wander Regions Old Man Enchantment

Book:Select Poetical Works

Source: Select Poetical Works

“When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.”

World Written Serious Poet Criticism Expected Plenty Korean

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.”

World Writing Firsts Seems Fiction Study Poet Criticism University Fiction Writers Disconnected Literary Criticism

Author:Robert Hass

“I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.”

Thinking Writing Reason Whole America Young Lines Knowing Poet Periods Criticism England Agree Historical University Practicals Backgrounds Not Sure Frightening Emphasis Dylan Eliot Yeats

Author:Sylvia Plath