Difficult Quote by Billy Squier

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

— Edward Hirsch

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

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

— Robert Browning

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham