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Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

“The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.”

Important Criticism Psychology

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Tao Lin

Author and Poet

“If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.”

Writing Book Criticism

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.”

Art Littles

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.”

Pieces Criticism

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Venus Williams

Tennis Player

“The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.”

Mean Criticism Naysayers

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.”

Lying Lines

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”

Criticism

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.”

Art Loneliness Criticism

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Ted Leo

Musician

“I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.”

People Thinking Criticism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“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.”

Genius Criticism Odds

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.”

Thinking Criticism Lessons

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.”

Men Criticism Reviews

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