25 Quotes by James Schuyler

One tends to write beyond what’s needed.

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

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

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.

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).

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

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.