I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own … - James Arthur

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.

James Arthur

I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on the reader's mood. That's why negative capability matters; if the poet stops short of fully controlling each poem's meaning, the reader can make the poem his or her own.

Fully, Meaning, Mood, Negative, Poet

Same Author Quotes

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.

Dream, Like, Poem, Wake, Wake Up, Writing

If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.

Art, Conversation, Intimate Conversation, Love, Questions, Want

I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.

Fighting, Grow, Poems, Stubborn, Thinking, Turn

Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.

Allow, Faculties, Forms, Mind, Signatures, Writing

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

Dreamed, Language, Make Sense, Polyglot, Polyglots