Differences Quote by Billy Collins

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it…

— Billy Collins

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree -…

— Billy Collins

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

— Robert Browning

Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe…

— Billy Collins

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

— Colleen McCullough

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

“What I find difficult, when I read, is to encounter other people’s achievements passed off as one’s own. I find it difficult to discover…

— Ben Marcus

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to…

— Miller Williams