Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and those which presently exist, between the past and the present out of which the future must be born.


Contemporaries (1960)

Alfred Kazin Quotes

Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and...

Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and...

Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and...

Any critic who is any good is going to write out of a profound inner struggle between what has been and what must be, the values he is used to and...