John Barton

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

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.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.