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List of James Schuyler Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 12 inspiring quotes by James Schuyler.

About James Schuyler

  • Born: November 9, 1923
  • Died: April 12, 1991
  • Occupation: Poet
    • What are the questions you wish to ask?
    Wish Asks
    One tends to write beyond what's needed
    Writing Needed
    I do not usually revise much, though i often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
    Cutting Ends
    A nothing day full of wild beauty .... little fish stream by, a river in water.
    Wild Beauty Rivers Water
    It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
    Writing Interest Pleasant
    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)
    Mean Thinking Mysterious
    However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
    Poetry Poetic Prose
    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
    Past Trying Able
    Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial december.
    Fall Eye Dark
    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
    Artist Talking Firsts
    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.
    Stars Dark Moon
    I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
    Flower Book Wish
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