Clear Quote by Miller Williams

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

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

— Robert Browning

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

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

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

— Billy Squier

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

— Wendy Cope

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the…

— Dana Gioia

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt