Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about >>

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are >>

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me ne >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. >>

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in appl >>

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. >>

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo