I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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