Top 30 James Schuyler Quotes
#1. There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.
Coco Rocha
#3. 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
#4. A nothing day full of wild beauty ... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
James Schuyler
#5. Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
Robin Tunney
#6. There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett
#7. However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
James Schuyler
#8. If you don't want to believe me, you don't have to do anything about it.
Paulo Coelho
#9. To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
James Schuyler
#11. 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
#12. I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
James Schuyler
#13. Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler
#14. It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
James Schuyler
#15. I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences.
Michael Crichton
#16. People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
Will Rogers
#17. 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
#19. My organs are too powerful ... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.
Robert Baldwin
#20. 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.
James Schuyler
#21. All of it was hers, hers and Nat's, and all those years were nestled inside them like one of those Russian dolls, holding dozens of tiny selves inside it.
Lauren Oliver
#22. The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.
Arthur F. Holmes
#23. 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, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.
James Schuyler
#24. To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
Arthur Rimbaud
#25. I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.
James Schuyler
#26. All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
Blaise Pascal
#27. I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
Dawn French
#28. 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.
James Schuyler
#30. It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
Tim Pawlenty
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