James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

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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

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One tends to write beyond what's needed. ↗

— James Schuyler

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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

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

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

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