All John Barton Quotes
We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
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The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.
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The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
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