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"The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot."
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"Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway."
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"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
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"There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs."
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"People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone."
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"The voice of the inner critic is mean, unforgiving, punishing, and downright hurtful. When you allow it to run roughshod over your happiness and emotional well-being, it can wreak havoc on your peace of mind and leave you feeling anxious, fearful, and depleted."
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"He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. "I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all."
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"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."
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"Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick."
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"Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
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"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
Life
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
Music
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
Emotional
"My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do."
Emotional
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
Emotional
"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."
Work
"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."
Literature
"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."
Reflection
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