"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
― John Barton
Topic(s):
Poetry
― John Barton
More From John Barton
- "If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
- "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."
- "The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."
More In Poetry
- "One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."― Robert Morgan
- "I don’t really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I’ve seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it."― Sam Raimi
- "Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."― Robert Staughton Lynd