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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.