I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens…

— Simon Critchley

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the…

— Dana Gioia

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

— Robert Graves

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never…

— William Carlos Williams

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly,…

— Joseph Brodsky

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only…

— John Ruskin

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

— Anonymous

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

— MJ Hegar