Adversity Quote by 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

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult…

— Billy Collins

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

— Robert Browning

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

— Nick Laird

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

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

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

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

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

— Wendy Cope

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

— Julia Cameron