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I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it. — Matthea Harvey

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual. — Matthea Harvey

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. — Matthea Harvey

The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half ... — Harry Houdini

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off. — Matthea Harvey

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field. — Matthea Harvey

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address. — Matthea Harvey

The conscience within man is always either excusing or accusing. — Tedd Tripp

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail. — Alain De Botton

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality. — Matthea Harvey

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click. — Matthea Harvey

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that. — Zephyr Teachout

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual. — Matthea Harvey

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more. — Ron Wood

God should always be our first thought, not our last resort. — Kate McGahan

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?" — Matthea Harvey

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision. — Matthea Harvey

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre. — Matthea Harvey

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride. — Matthea Harvey

If there is no fog on the day you come home I will build a bonfire
So the smoke will make the cedars look the way you like them — Matthea Harvey

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. — Sally Schneider

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense. — Matthea Harvey

To be a poet you have to experiment. — Matthea Harvey

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities. — Matthea Harvey

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey

Oh, we're compatible. Your working parts and mine were in perfect alignment just a few seconds ago. — Sawyer Bennett

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal. — Matthea Harvey

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life. — Matthea Harvey

I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations. — Matthea Harvey

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions. — Raymond Smullyan

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language. — Matthea Harvey

Every dog must have his day. — Jonathan Swift

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. — Matthea Harvey

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems. — Matthea Harvey

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form. — Matthea Harvey

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey

Water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well. — Anonymous

Teaching is a great way to keep learning. — Matthea Harvey

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are. — Matthea Harvey