Harry Mathews Quotes

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I like to write poetry.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I'm really into poetry.

I read mostly poetry.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.