• Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”