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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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"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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Akshay Vasu

"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

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Akshay Vasu

"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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Akshay Vasu

"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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Akshay Vasu

"Be an artist in everything you do."

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Akshay Vasu

"Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness."

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Akshay Vasu

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

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Akshay Vasu

"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."

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Akshay Vasu

"Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart."

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Akshay Vasu

"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

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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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John Barton
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."

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John Barton
"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."

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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."

Art

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

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John Barton
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."

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John Barton
"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."

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

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