Difficult Quote by Wendy Cope Download Open image “The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.” — Wendy Cope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Difficult Marriage Modern Modern poetry Poet Poetry Poetry is Reason Wife
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...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry... — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“A Green Song (to sing at the bottle-bank) One green bottle, Drop it in the bank. Ten green bottles, What a lot we drank.… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Everybody in this room is bored. The poems drag, the voice and gestures irk. He can't be interrupted or ignored. Poor fools, we came… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis It was a dream I had last week And some kind of record seemed vital. I knew it wouldn't… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
Consumers can choose organic cotton grown without pesticides, but it uses more water and requires more land than conventional crops. Organic cotton can also… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world. — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
