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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 11th, 1930

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