You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
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.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.
I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.
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