Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Criticism
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.
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