We work on extra points and field goals every day, every day. To have that let us down is very tough.
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We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.John Barton
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
John Barton
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
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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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