Harry Mathews Quotes on poetry

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

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Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer, the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language.

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Harry Mathews

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

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Harry Mathews

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

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Harry Mathews

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

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