John Barton Quotes

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

I'd kill to be a poet.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music of language always available to me.

I don't have time for language poetry anymore. I don't want to throw people off anymore.

I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

I've written poetry most of my life.

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.