Quotes About Complexity

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa"And I've never wanted to drown until now." - JmStorm

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.