Years ago I used to set my ...

Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and move directly into writing. I guess my favorite poems contain a mixture of intuitive and analytical thought.
 James Arthur

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As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.
 James Arthur
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