I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult i… - Geoffrey Hill

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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.

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Sir Geoffrey William Hill (18 June 1932 - 30 June 2016) was an English poet and is Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.

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Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
of a half-eaten ram; vicious wounds in earth
opening. What seraphs are afoot.

The years will not
answer for what they have done, that much is
certain. There is no shaking them, we
might have foreseen this but refused.

"One cannot lose what one has not possessed."
So much for that abrasive gem.
I can lose what I want. I want you.

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