• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet 1885-1972
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. preliminary
2. excitement
3. antecedent
4. sometime
5. probably
6. writing

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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. by : Ezra Pound

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