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.

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.