“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
“Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, and all ignorance.”
Mirra Alfassa
“In the still of the night I can hear my thoughts and dance into obscurity”
Kevin Sparks
“Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting”
Edmund Burke
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
William Blake
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
James Thurber
