Geoffrey Hill Inspirational Quotes (6)

I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.

Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

Thus I grind to conclusion.