"Well, the great thing for me about poetry……" — 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 they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."
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Harry Mathews
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30 Quotes by Harry Mathews
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I…
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was…
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You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
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Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of…
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation…
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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought…
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're…
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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year…
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