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No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast res

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

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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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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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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. – John Barton

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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before its understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I dont have a clue what theyre on about. – Marcus Mumford

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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Its like I understand images and some people understand poetry. – Samantha Morton

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