"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, 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." "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." "I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches." More In Poetry "I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."― Isaac Rosenberg "The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology."― Basil Bunting "I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write."― Colin Quinn