Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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