James Schuyler Quotes

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
James Schuyler

Poetry, However, Sentence

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

Work, Why, Others

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
James Schuyler

End, Often, Though

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

Work, Past, Person

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
James Schuyler

Work, Someone, Writing

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

Experience, Mean, Sometimes

One tends to write beyond what's needed.
James Schuyler

Write, Beyond, Needed

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

Words, Impossible, Artist

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
James Schuyler

Change, Art, Elements

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 9, 1923

Died: April 12, 1991

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