Difficult Quote by Robert Browning

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

— Wendy Cope

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other…

— Anonymous

On the contrary, I find you very difficult to read.

— Edward Cullen

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens…

— Simon Critchley

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never…

— William Carlos Williams

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly,…

— Joseph Brodsky

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

— Thomas Piketty