Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Reverence is fatal to literature.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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