Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

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.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

I love constructive criticism.

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.