Quotes by Joe Barton

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its...

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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to...

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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that...

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect...

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has...

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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The...

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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent...

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I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most...

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I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the...

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable...

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I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

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