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Letter "C" » criticizing
«The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.»
«The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
criticizing, fine, moved, robs, The Pleasure
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Criticism,
Government
| Keywords:
criticizing, government in, policy, taxes, the government
«Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own»
Author: Proverb
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criticizes, criticizing, garden, of your own, weeded, weeding, weeds, weed out
«You should not indulge in criticizing other countries or people belonging to other nations.»
«We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of cr»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Criticism,
Mind
| Keywords:
articulated, articulating, breathing, criticizing, passes, remind
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