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John Barton

"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."

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Akiroq Brost

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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Akiroq Brost

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."

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"If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!"

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Akiroq Brost

"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

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Akiroq Brost

"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

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Akiroq Brost

"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

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Akiroq Brost

"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."

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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."

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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."

Hope

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

Nature

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

Art

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