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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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"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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Donna Grant

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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Donna Grant

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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Donna Grant

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

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Donna Grant

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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Donna Grant

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

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Donna Grant

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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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
"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
"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."

Poetry

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

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