“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” TryingPersonsSeemsAblePastMy OwnDefinitionsComment Book:Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991 Source: Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991
