"It seems to me that readers sometimes make……" — James Schuyler
"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)"
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James Schuyler
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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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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
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One tends to write beyond what's needed
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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 Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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