James Schuyler Quotes

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

Tags

Readers | Genesis | Poem | Mysterious | Experience |

comments powered by Disqus

Random

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

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. - James Schuyler

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. - James Schuyler