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

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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.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Time has nothing to do with the matter.”

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Author:Moliere

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

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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.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“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.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.”

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Book:The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism