D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Literature, Never Trust

  Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

• The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Two, Way

  Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

• Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Feelings, Criticism

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

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