Read as little as possible of aesthetic criticism

This advice comes from Rilke. Aesthetic critiques are either partisan and indurate, or passing, teeter-tottering fads. Only love can grasp works of art.1 Judgment is a creativity thief. [[ We know things by giving ourselves to them ]].

W. H. Auden says something similar.

!When someone says, ‘I know what I like’ —W.H. Auden

  1. Letters to a Young Poet pg. 23 ↩

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