John Barton's Quote - An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This m

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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This m

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. – John Barton

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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. – John Barton

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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 dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. – John Barton

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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. – Knut Hamsun

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis

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