“Some critics are like chimney-sweepers: they put out the fire below, or frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood (courtesy of Michael Greenspan)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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