Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Critics

• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Criticism, Ridiculous, Synthetic

• Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Criticism, Strikes

• He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Mind, Obscurity

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Poetry, Everyday

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