James Schuyler Quotes

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

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

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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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• 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.

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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 I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

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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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• 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 poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

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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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• 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 why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

  James Schuyler

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Birth:	9th November, 1923
Death:	12th April, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

James Marcus Schuyler was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American poet. He received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem. He was the son of Marcus Schuyler and Margaret Daisy Connor Schuyler. He studied at Bethany College in West Virginia and the University of Florence. He wrote several poems include: Salute, May 24th or So, Freely Espousing, A Sun Cab, The Crystal Lithium, Hymn to Life, Song, and A Few Days. He also coauthored a novel, A Nest of Ninnies(with John Ashbery in 1969). He also received the Longview Foundation Award in 1961, the Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry in 1969 for Freely Espousing, and Whiting Award in 1985.

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