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John Barton

"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."

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Donna Grant

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

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Donna Grant

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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Donna Grant

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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Donna Grant

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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Donna Grant

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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Donna Grant

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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Donna Grant

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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Donna Grant

"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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Donna Grant

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

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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."

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John Barton
"Reading should be a repeat performance."

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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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John Barton
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."

Theory

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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
"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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John Barton
"Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense."

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

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