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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."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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Donna Grant

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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Donna Grant

"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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Donna Grant

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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Donna Grant

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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John Barton
"Reading should be a repeat performance."

Reading

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John Barton
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."

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John Barton
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

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John Barton
"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."

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John Barton
"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

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John Barton
"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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John Barton
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

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John Barton
"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

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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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John Barton
"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

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