Difficulty Quote by Nick Laird

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

— Robert Browning

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

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

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

— Rayvon L. Browne

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and…

— Anonymous

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

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

— Steve Earle

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

— Billy Squier