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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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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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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. – John Masefield

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But one does not make living writing poetry unless youre a professor, and one frankly doesnt get a lot of girls as a poet. – Jeffery Deaver

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Poetry

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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Poetry

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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