"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."

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Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

James Arthur

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.”
“You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.”

Source : "Meeting U.S. Envoy, Putin Appears to Soften His Tone". www.nytimes.com. November 19, 2014.
“I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.”
“My heart is like a singing bird.”
“the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”
“It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“There's not that many surprises that you get in life.”
“Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.”

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