Sharp Quotes for Starters
"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader." John Dryden
“We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.”
(Northrop Frye, Creation and Recreation)
“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”
Northrop Frye
"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 criticism." T. S. Eliot
"What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?" T. S. Eliot
