"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding"
- Harry Mathews
About this Quote
Harry Mathews is expressing his desire to discover how to write poetry. He is major about this objective and is identified to make it take place. He is not joking or making a joke, but is rather expressing his authentic interest in learning how to compose poetry. He is most likely encouraged by a desire to reveal himself artistically and to explore the world of poetry. He is likely knowledgeable about the challenges that featured discovering a new ability, however is determined to take on the difficulty and make it happen. He is likely anticipating the journey of discovering how to compose poetry and the possible rewards that come with it.
This quote is written / told by Harry Mathews somewhere between February 14, 1930 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA.
The author also have 25 other quotes.
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry"
"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel"
