"I do not usually revise much, though I……" — James Schuyler
"I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem"
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15 Quotes by James Schuyler
James Schuyler has 15 quotes on this site.
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What are the questions you wish to ask?
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Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in…
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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…
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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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One tends to write beyond what's needed
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It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that…
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is…
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
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I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
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A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
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Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with…
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To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
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More Cut Quotes
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
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Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.
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'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think…
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or…
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's…
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We…
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I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it…
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