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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward."

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Donna Grant

"A mind filled with questions is better than a mind full of answers."

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Donna Grant

"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

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Donna Grant

"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

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Donna Grant

"Do not just accept anything without questioning."

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Donna Grant

"Do I get bored from books or films?No, I don't get I get bored from genre so I change it and start something new..."

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Donna Grant

"Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem."

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Donna Grant

"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet-that's not a problem. The problem is that I just can't live anywhere on the planet."

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Donna Grant

"How do i do this?"

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Donna Grant

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

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John Barton
"Reading should be a repeat performance."

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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."

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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 can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

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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."

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John Barton
"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."

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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."

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John Barton
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

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John Barton
"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."

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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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