Obscure Poetry Quotes

#1. I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Billy Collins

#2. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#3. One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Muriel Rukeyser

#4. The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.

Sahara Sanders

#5. Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Paul Ruffin

#6. We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ...

Denise Levertov

#7. Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#8. I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure

Sanhita Baruah

#10. This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Dylan Thomas

#11. The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

Andre Breton

#12. No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Alfred Austin

#13. Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And has the nature of infinity.

William Wordsworth

#14. Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

Marisha Pessl

#15. Perfection, my dear being,
is what you are.
Let not your mind
obscure your view.
Be still and be aware,
right where you are,
you cannot miss it.

Santosh Lamichhane