Geoffrey Hill famous quotes

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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.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Wall #Eye #Fire
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. Weâ€™re difficult to ourselves, weâ€™re difficult to each other.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Difficult #Humans
Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Grace #Language #Uncouth
Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Book #Dumb #Rough Drafts
Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Doe #Toilets #Duty
I think art has a right â€” not an obligation â€” 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.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Art #Thinking #People
Thus I grind to conclusion.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Grind #Conclusion
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most â€œintellectualâ€ piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Real #Self #Intellectual
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.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Art #Thinking #People
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Tyrants #Mind #Language
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Nature #Autumn #Land
As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.
-- Geoffrey Hill

#Death #Routine #Cry
Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone
-- Geoffrey Hill

#House #Solitude #Stones

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