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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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"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."

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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

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"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."

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"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

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"The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties."

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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."

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"You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it."
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"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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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools."
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"I feel very connected to poets across the country."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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