Penny/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words penny and/or criticism:

    “I had not given a penny for a song
    Did not the poet sing it with such airs
    That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
    Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
    Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)