Logo
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

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Harry Mathews
Read Quote

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
Author
Harry Mathews
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

Category:
Poetry

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. – James Broughton

Category:
Poetry

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry

So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. – Nicholson Baker

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. – George Herbert

Category:
Gardens

When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you. – Gene Perret

Category:
Retirement

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. – Marco Rubio

Category:
History

Yoga is the study of balance, and balance is the aim of all living creatures: it is our home. – Rolf Gates

Category:
Yoga