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James Schuyler quotes

American Poet November 9, 1923 – April 12, 1991

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James Schuyler quote: "To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art..."
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. James Schuyler
Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future. James Schuyler
James Schuyler quote: "I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers."
I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers. James Schuyler
James Schuyler quote: "It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest..."
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. James Schuyler
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. James Schuyler
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others. James Schuyler
James Schuyler quote: "Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write..."
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. James Schuyler
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience). James Schuyler
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. James Schuyler
James Schuyler quote: "One tends to write beyond what's needed."
One tends to write beyond what's needed. James Schuyler
James Schuyler quote: "I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly..."
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem. James Schuyler
James Schuyler quote: "However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there..."
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler

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