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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena

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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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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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton

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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. – Robert Morgan

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Theres one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. – Robert Adamson

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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden

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Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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