It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
More Quotes from 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, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
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
One tends to write beyond what's needed.
James Schuyler
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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