Author: James Schuyler

Quotes

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).

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

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

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

- James Schuyler

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

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

- James Schuyler

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

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

- James Schuyler

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