One tends to write beyond what's needed

- James Schuyler

What are the questions you wish to ask?

- James Schuyler

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,…

- James Schuyler

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

- James Schuyler

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

- James Schuyler

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

- 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 t…

- James Schuyler

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

- 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…

- James Schuyler