All James Schuyler Quotes
- What are the questions you wish to ask? Ask
- Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December. Cheek
- 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 Aim
- It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing Always Pleasant
- I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem Cut
- One tends to write beyond what's needed Beyond
- 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… Experience
- 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… Able
- However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. Inspirational
- I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers. Book
- A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. Beauty
- 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… Another Place
- To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. Art
- 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… Acceptable
- Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. Any