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

Other quotes by Harry Mathews

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

Category:
Translation
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. – James Broughton

Category:
Poetry

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. – Goldwin Smith

Category:
Poetry

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isnt poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. – J. Milton Hayes

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. – Mason Cooley

Category:
Love

Evolution and creationism both require faith. Its just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. – Benjamin Carson

Category:
Faith

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby

Category:
Fathers

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
good