43 Quotes by Matthea Harvey

I guess I’m a bit of a projector – my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.

I suppose it’s useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an “I,” but it’s a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.

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.

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

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

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative – why not a nyric or a larrative?

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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

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