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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
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
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
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
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 bonfireSo 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
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
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
Teaching is a great way to keep learning.
— Matthea Harvey
