"However, if a poem can be reduced to……" — 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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15 Quotes by James Schuyler

James Schuyler has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

What are the questions you wish to ask?
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in…
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out…
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
One tends to write beyond what's needed
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that…
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is…
I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with…
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

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More Inspirational Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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