Addresses Quote by Geoffrey Hill

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.

— Geoffrey Hill

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

I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole…

— Horace Silver

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

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Walter Pater

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

— Wendy Cope

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of…

— David Whyte

In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for me to…

— Lady Gaga

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we…

— John Cassavetes