Beats Quote by Macklemore

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

— Robert Browning

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

— Saul Williams

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read…

— Marilyn Hacker

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

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

— Rayvon L. Browne

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

— Caroline Kennedy

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

— Adrian Mitchell

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

— Amber Tamblyn

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

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton