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

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"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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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
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"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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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"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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"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
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"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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