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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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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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Harry Mathews
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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 theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry
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Ive always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, How odd that Im doing a record before a book of poetry, – Jewel

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

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