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James Schuyler

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


— James Schuyler


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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.


— James Schuyler


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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.


— James Schuyler


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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).


— James Schuyler


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One tends to write beyond what's needed.


— James Schuyler


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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.


— James Schuyler


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To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.


— James Schuyler


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


— James Schuyler


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Schuyler moved to New York City in the late 1940s where he worked for NBC and first befriended W. : Kermani Press 1976). Two Journals: James Schuyler Darragh Park by Schuyler and Darragh Park (New York: Tibor de Nagy 1995).

James Marcus Schuyler (November 9 1923 – April 12 1991) was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem.

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