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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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Donna Grant

"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

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Donna Grant

"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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Donna Grant

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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Donna Grant

"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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Donna Grant

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

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Donna Grant

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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Donna Grant

"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

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Donna Grant

"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

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Donna Grant

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

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Donna Grant

"Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be."

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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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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."

Emotional

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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."

Creativity

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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."

Experience

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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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