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“I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.”
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James Schuyler
#Flower Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Wish Quotes
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“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”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
#Past Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Definitions Quotes
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“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)”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
#Mean Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Mysterious Quotes
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“One tends to write beyond what's needed”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
#Writing Quotes
#Needed Quotes
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“I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
#Cutting Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
#Writing Quotes
#Interest Quotes
#Pleasant Quotes
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“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”
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James Schuyler
#Artist Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Impossible Quotes
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“Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (1969). “Freely Espousing: Poems”
#Fall Quotes
#Eye Quotes
#Dark Quotes
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“What are the questions you wish to ask?”
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James Schuyler
#Wish Quotes
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“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.”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler, Nathan Kernan (1997). “The diary of James Schuyler”, Black Sparrow Pr
#Stars Quotes
#Dark Quotes
#Night Quotes
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“A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (1972). “The Crystal Lithium-Pa”, Random House (NY)
#Rivers Quotes
#Water Quotes
#Littles Quotes
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“However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.”
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James Schuyler
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
#Poetry Quotes
#Prose Quotes
#Sentences Quotes
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