John Barton Quotes

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

- John Barton

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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on. - John Barton

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. - John Barton