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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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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

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Akshay Vasu

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

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Akshay Vasu

"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."

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Akshay Vasu

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

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Akshay Vasu

"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

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Akshay Vasu

"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

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Akshay Vasu

"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

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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 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."

Poems

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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
"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"

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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
"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."

Time

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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
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

Poems

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