Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
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.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
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!
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.
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.