I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
What are the questions you wish to ask? - James Schuyler
What are the questions you wish to ask?
- James Schuyler
One tends to write beyond what's needed - James Schuyler
One tends to write beyond what's needed
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
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…
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
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,…
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December. - James Schuyler
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing - James Schuyler
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water. - James Schuyler
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem - 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
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…
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