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

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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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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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respect
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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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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre

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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. They dont need to be told how to interpret poetry. They dont need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. – Peter Davison

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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But then Im one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. – Tom Waits

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson

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