Top 19 Poetry Critic Quotes
#1. For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
Adam Gopnik
#2. But the modern critic not only permits a false practice: he absolutely prescribes false aims." A true allegory of the state of one's mind in a representative history," the poet is told, "is perhaps the highest thing that one can attempt in the way of poetry.
Matthew Arnold
#4. When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.
Arsene Wenger
#5. Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
#6. Somehow human resources only assigns me gay men or women old enough to have birthed me. I suspect that's on direct orders from Sawyer. Dick.
Jana Aston
#7. I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
Sophia Bush
#8. Having defined your purpose and mission, you need to implement the program directly concerned with your goals every day
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.
Michael Tsarion
#11. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
George Sewell
#12. I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.
Stephen King
#13. I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
Portia De Rossi
#14. You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
Michael Ian Black
#15. What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.
Scott Russell Sanders
#16. I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.
Christy Romano
#17. For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn't written for poets, it's written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it's true for oneself.
Helen Vendler
#18. Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.
Joshua
#19. For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.
Peter Medawar
