"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding." ― Harry Mathews Topic(s): Poetry More From Harry Mathews "Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited." "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." "I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches." More In Poetry "Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."― Michael Tippett "Success will ruin your life."― Tom Clancy "Why should poetry have to make sense?"― Charlie Chaplin