John Barton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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John Barton quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 32 we have.

John Barton Quotes
“Reading should be a repeat performance.”
John Barton Quotes
“The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.”
John Barton Quotes
“To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.”
John Barton Quotes
“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.”
John Barton Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
John Barton Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
John Barton Quotes
“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.”
John Barton Quotes
“I feel very connected to poets across the country.”

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