We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing…

T. S. Eliot
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2010). The Waste Land and Other Poems, p.84, Broadview Press
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