I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem James Schuyler More Quotes by James Schuyler More Quotes From James Schuyler I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers. James Schuyler flower wish book 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 James Schuyler artist talking firsts 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 a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future. James Schuyler stars moon dark Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December. James Schuyler eye dark fall 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 James Schuyler able trying past 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) James Schuyler mysterious mean thinking One tends to write beyond what's needed James Schuyler needed writing It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing James Schuyler pleasant interest writing What are the questions you wish to ask? James Schuyler asks wish A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. James Schuyler wild-beauty rivers water However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler prose poetic poetry 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 things see work way To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. James Schuyler your like know change art Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. James Schuyler well never myself poetry
