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James Schuyler [1923-1991] American

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Poet

James Marcus Schuyler was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem.

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.	Poetry	101
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.		102
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).		103
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.		104
One tends to write beyond what's needed.		105
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.		106
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.		107
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.		108
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.		109
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.		110

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