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The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Margaret Fuller
Three, Philosopher, Poet
Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.16
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.