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Quote by Harry Mathews
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews

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Translation
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Harry Mathews
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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. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry
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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Poetry

One cant write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who dont like poetry. – Nathalie Sarraute

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Poetry

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