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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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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

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"Children see beauty in everything."

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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."

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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."

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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"Children are great observers."

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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."

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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

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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
"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."

Family

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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
"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."

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John Barton
"Reading should be a repeat performance."

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John Barton
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."

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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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"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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"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."

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"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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