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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Criticism, May, Poet
"Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers, Dante", 1824.
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.