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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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Poetry
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I have always been very obsessed with time. Times passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. – John Barton

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alone
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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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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And Im yet to pen a script, but it is something that Ive been telling myself I want to do. – Luke Treadaway

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