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James Arthur Inspirational Quotes (43)

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If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?
James Arthur
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As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
James MacArthur
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Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.
James MacArthur
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I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.
James Arthur
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But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
James MacArthur
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For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.
James Arthur
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I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.
James Arthur
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When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.
James Arthur
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I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.
James MacArthur
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Whenever I visit my family in Canada, I remind myself that what many Americans would consider forthright, many Canadians would consider overbearing.
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Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
James MacArthur
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I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.
James Arthur
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I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
James MacArthur
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Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.
James Arthur
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For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.
James Arthur
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A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.
James MacArthur
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When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.
James Arthur
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Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.
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I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.
James Arthur
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