"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either……" — John Barton
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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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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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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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
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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 Autobiographical Quotes
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one of 96 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only…
— Maya Angelou
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a…
— Shirley Jackson
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'…
— Gloria Swanson
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really…
— Lana Del Rey
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
— Charles Wright
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All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual…
— Will Oldham
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The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
— Jonathan Franzen
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