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John Barton Quotes

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: canadian

Topics

Poetry World Way Effect Views Then

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

Positive People Media Feeling Young

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

Today People World Think Weird High

I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.

Andrea Riseborough

Life Mother Child Looking I Can Own

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

Trying Attention Inside Outside Out

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

Kiss Media Appearance Band See Big

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

Tomas Transtromer

Storm World Impossible Proud Picture

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin

Love Great Fire Wind Small Absence

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

Robin S. Sharma

Age Believe Meant To Be New Hand

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

Romesh Gunesekera

Politics War Small Place Go Try

I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas industry, the way I could contribute was to do something in the film world. I never thought it would be a big deal at all.

Community World Thought Way Never

My childhood was basically divided between fishing and roaming the woods and hiding out in my bedroom. Maybe things would've turned out differently if I'd had a TV in there; who knows.

Childhood Fishing Woods Bedroom Out

Each book first begins with a little idea.

Book First Little Begins Idea Each

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