I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate … - James Arthur

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My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p. m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

James Arthur

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.

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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.

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