Harry Mathews quote

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.
Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews
Born: Feb 14, 1930

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Saying, Good, Great, Me, Words, Distance, Say, About, Poems, Poetry, Between, Great Thing, Well, Greatest, Dislocation, They Say, Actually, Thing

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