James Schuyler
James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuylerwas an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 November 1923
CountryUnited States of America
flower book wish
I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
art change disparate form phrase
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.
enter intention reader sees work
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.
poetry sentences prose
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
wild-beauty rivers water
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
stars dark moon
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.
wish asks
What are the questions you wish to ask?
writing interest pleasant
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
cutting ends
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
writing needed
One tends to write beyond what's needed
mean thinking mysterious
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)
past trying definitions
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
artist firsts impossible
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