critics are creative, huh?

"A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased--he hates all creative people equally."
--Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

(I won't edit a quote, but critics aren't, of course, exclusive to gender)

Let there be Light

"Tonight's forecast...dark...with darkness increasing and then continuing until morning."
--George Carlin's The Hippy Dippy Weather Man

"Dark night that from the eye his function takes,
The ear more quick of apprehension makes,
Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,
It pays the hearing double recompense." --Shakespeare

"It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightengale. Look love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East;
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tip-toe on the misty mountaintops." --Shakespeare

"Ethereal, first of things, quintessence, pure."--Milton

"Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.--Carlysle

"Night whose sable hand
Hangs on the purple skirts of flying day." --Dyer

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." --Dylan Thomas