criticism
“Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think is creation’s.”
“One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.”
“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
“Literature is a living art; therefore it must be personal and of its essence personal.”
“There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and, secondly, the literature of power.”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.”