„Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle.“
"Verse Chronicle," The Nation (23 February 1946); reprinted as "Bad Poets" in Poetry and the Age (1953)
General sources
Kontext: Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I put them aside and read them and think of what to say; but the "worthless" books come in day after day, like the cries and truck sounds from the street, and there is nothing that anyone could think of that is good enough for them. In the bad type of thin pamphlets, in hand-set lines on imported paper, people's hard lives and hopeless ambitions have expressed themselves more directly and heartbreakingly than they have ever expressed in any work of art: it is as if the writers had sent you their ripped-out arms and legs, with "This is a poem" scrawled on them in lipstick. After a while one is embarrassed not so much for them as for poetry, which is for these poor poets one more of the openings against which everyone in the end beats his brains out; and one finds it unbearable that poetry should be so hard to write — a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey in which there is for most of the players no tail, no donkey, not even a booby prize.
Randall Jarrell
US-amerikanischer Dichter, Literaturkritiker, Kinderbuchaut… 1914 - 1965Ähnliche Zitate
„Sometimes it's hard when you want to be like someone but you don't know how.“
— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Heavenly Fire
Quelle: City of Heavenly Fire
„People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.“
— W. Somerset Maugham, buch Der Menschen Hörigkeit
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50
— Bhumibol Adulyadej King of Thailand 1927 - 2016
Quelle: "King Bhumibol's Reign" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/magazine/king-bhumibol-s-reign.html (21 May 1989)
— Henri Nouwen Dutch priest and writer 1932 - 1996
With Open Hands (1972)
Kontext: Only within this kind of life does a spoken prayer make sense. A prayer in church, at table or in school is only a witness to what we want to make of our entire lives. Such a prayer reminds us that praying is living and it invites us to make this an ever-greater reality. Thus, there are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life. Sometimes we seek out a quiet spot and want to be alone, sometimes we look for a friend and want to be together. Sometimes we like a book, sometimes we prefer music. Sometimes we want to sing out with hundreds, sometimes only whisper with a few. Sometimes we want to say it with words, sometimes with a deep silence.
— Leo Strauss Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism 1899 - 1973
Preface
Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)
— Satyajit Ray Indian author, poet, composer, lyricist, filmmaker 1921 - 1992
Above three quotes by Amos Gitai in I got to know about India from Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak films: Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, 13 November 2013, 13 December 2013, Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/bengali/news-interviews/I-got-to-know-about-India-from-Satyajit-Ray-and-Ritwik-Ghatak-films-Israeli-filmmaker-Amos-Gitai/articleshow/25651595.cms,
„Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.“
— Jonathan Safran Foer, buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
„Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last.“
— Dave Eggers, buch How We Are Hungry
Quelle: How We Are Hungry
— Laura Antoniou American novelist 1963
Quelle: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 14
„There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.“
— Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838); published in The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I, p. 327, , edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (1983).
Kontext: There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them...
„Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.“
— Henry Miller American novelist 1891 - 1980
— George W. S. Trow American writer 1943 - 2006
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
„The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.“
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 38.
— Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965
“ ‘Very Graceful Are the Uses of Culture’ ”, p. 211
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
„There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 v.Chr
Misattributed
Quelle: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898), p. 370 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435065322687?urlappend=%3Bseq=458: "If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie." Other versions of the saying were repeated in several of Hubbard's later writings.
