"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine……" — John Barton

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

27 Quotes by John Barton

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I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test…
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes…
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but…
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
Reading should be a repeat performance.
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about…
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of… — Andrew Carnegie
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act… — Charles Caleb Colton
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. — Adolf Hitler
If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not… — Joe Lieberman
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man… — Thomas Dreier
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the… — Hippocrates
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system… — Mahatma Gandhi
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry.… — Alfred North Whitehead
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . .… — Noah Webster
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional… — William J. Brennan
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who… — James Madison
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those… — James Madison

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"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine……" — John Barton

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