“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.” ThinkingArtArtistDifficultCreativityPoetFlowUniversal Author:Alex Grey
“According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.” MenMadeDifferentDifficultDifferencesEnvironmentSeaSocietyPoetTypeSoldierAssVarietyPriestsLionsSheepSailorCrowStatesmenWorkmenCalvesZoology Author:Honore de Balzac
“if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.” IfsThinkingTryingMayFilmEasyDifficultPoetCriticsPainter Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.” ReasonPoetryDifficultWifeModernPoetPoetry IsModern Poetry Author:Wendy Cope
“Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.” ThinkingMightDifficultLinesPoetNovelistsBeckett Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.” KnowsLittlesPersonsCountryDoneDifficultConsciousnessColorPoetPrideProudExcellentSuperiority Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.” WayWritingBelieveMayDifficultPoetReaderDon't BelieveObscure Author:Lydia Davis