'discarded like calendars'

"A good critic--we cannot help seeing, when we look
back at any other age--is a much rarer thing than a
good poet or a good novelist. Unless you are a critic
in a hundred thousand, the future will quote you only
as an example of the normal error of the past, what
everybody was foolish enough to believe then. Critics
are discarded like calendars; yet, for their year,
with what trust the world regards them!"

--Randall Jarrell, mid-20th century poet & critic

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