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John Barton [0-0] Canadian

Rank: 107
Poet, Fictional Character

John Barton is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by James Thornton. The actor was asked to audition for the part and he called it the "most frightening audition" he had ever done.

Poetry

Quote	Tags	Rank
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.	Poetry	101
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.		102
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.		103
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?	Poetry	104
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.	Poetry	105
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.		106
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.		107
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.		108
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.		109
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.		110
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.		111
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.	Poetry	112
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.		113
Reading should be a repeat performance.		114
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.		115
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.		116
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.		117
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.	Poetry	118
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.	Poetry	119
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.		120
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.		121
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.		122
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.		123
I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.		124
I feel very connected to poets across the country.		125
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.		126
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.		201
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.		202
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.		203
Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.		204
I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.		205
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.	Poetry	206

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