Edward Dahlberg Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Funeral, Heaven

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

• It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

  Edward Dahlberg

  People, Imagination, Criticism

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

• Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Silence, Criticism

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