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NUMBER:45110
QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. Criterion (London, Jan. 1923).
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