Vincent Yu-Chung Shih > Quotes

“An appreciative critic is essential to the realization of the value of a literary work. For works of art are never completed once and for all. Their value is ever enhanced by the appreciation and reinterpretation across the ages by critics who bring to their perusal their ever deepening experience...a literary work loses much of its richness if it is not appreciated.”
― Vincent Yu-Chung Shih, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons