The Critic as Artist: Quotes

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• "Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

  Gilbert · Part I

• "The one duty we owe to history is to re-write it."

  Gilbert · Part I

• "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

  Gilbert · Part II

• "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

  Gilbert · Part II

• "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

  Gilbert · Part II

• "For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

  Gilbert · Part II