"If poetry alters the way in which the……" — John Barton
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
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John Barton
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27 Quotes by John Barton
John Barton has 27 quotes on this site.
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I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test…
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I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes…
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The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but…
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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
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Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
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Reading should be a repeat performance.
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You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about…
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest…
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More Alters Quotes
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one of 108 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
— James Allen
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my…
— Oswald Chambers
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
— Claude Monet
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our…
— Drake
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
— Joan Didion
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
— Anna Funder
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
— Barry Lopez
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