Quotes by James Schuyler - Page 1

One tends to write beyond what's needed
James Schuyler / Poet
Needed
Writing
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What are the questions you wish to ask?
James Schuyler / Poet
Asks
Wish
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One tends to write beyond what's needed.
James Schuyler / Poet
Tends
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I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
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Book
Flower
Wish
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A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
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Rivers
Water
Wild Beauty
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
James Schuyler / Poet
Poetry
Poetic
Prose
However
Poem
Reduced
Sentence
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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
James Schuyler / Poet
Interest
Pleasant
Writing
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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
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Cutting
Ends
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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
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Enjoyed
Pleasant
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To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
James Schuyler / Poet
Elements
Entity
Somewhat
Disparate
Phrase
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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
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Cut
Particularly
Poem
Revise
Toward
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Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.
James Schuyler / Poet
Dark
Eye
Fall
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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 / Poet
Artist
Firsts
Talking
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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 / Poet
Aim
Communicate
Impossible
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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 / Poet
Mean
Mysterious
Thinking
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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).
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Genesis
Mysterious
Poem
Readers
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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.
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Acceptable
Intention
Reader
Work Way See
Enter
However
Interpreted
Sees
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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
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Able
Past
Trying
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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 / Poet
Comment
Work Past Me
Apt
Author
Consider
Declined
Definition
Work Me Past
In The Past
Objectively
Poem
Redefine
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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 / Poet
Dark
Moon
Stars
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