Margaret Fuller Quote

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.


"A Short Essay on Critics" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 5.


The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.