“It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.” ThinkingTryingRealityLastsRememberFeltForeverImagineSpeciesImpressionPreservesGoing AwayCaptureRealisticImagine ThatRemembers Everything Author:James Arthur
“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.” ThinkingI CanSometimesTogetherMy OwnImagineObjectsBuiltMathematicalDesksConstructsTemptedBecause I CanIkea Author:James Arthur
“I can't read my poem "Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle" without thinking of Seattle, where the events of the poem took place, and I can't read "In Defense of the Semicolon" without thinking of Toronto - but why should that matter to anyone else? If another reader imagines "In Defense of the Semicolon" taking place in New Orleans, great.” ThinkingImagineDistractedBicycle Author:James Arthur
