43 Quotes by Matthea Harvey

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

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

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

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

I’m pretty lenient with myself about time – if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It’s all part of the same thing for me.

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

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.

I don’t like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there’s a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

I’m interested in concrete poems – anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.