James Schuyler Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: November 9, 1923 - April 12, 1991
Birthday: November 9
Death: April 12
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
source: James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
topic: Past, Trying, Definitions
