One tends to write beyond what's needed.
More Quotes from James Schuyler:
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
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.
James Schuyler
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
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
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler
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