James Schuyler

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

What are the questions you wish to ask?

— James Schuyler

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

— 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…

— James Schuyler

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold…

— James Schuyler

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

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

— James Schuyler

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it…

— 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…

— James Schuyler

Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark…

— James Schuyler

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

— James Schuyler

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps…

— James Schuyler