25 Quotes by James Schuyler

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

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

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.

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

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

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.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

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

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