You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
“I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.”
“That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.”