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

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Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

James Schuyler

#Cutting Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.”
“Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”
“She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.”
“I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.”
“I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.”
“Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283”
“Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ***** up.”

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