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John Barton

"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."

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Donna Grant

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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Donna Grant

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Donna Grant

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Donna Grant

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

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Donna Grant

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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Donna Grant

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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Donna Grant

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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Donna Grant

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Donna Grant

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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John Barton
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."

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John Barton
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."

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John Barton
"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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John Barton
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."

Reading

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John Barton
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

Poetry

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John Barton
"Reading should be a repeat performance."

Reading

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John Barton
"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

Nation

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John Barton
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."

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John Barton
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."

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John Barton
"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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