Some portions of interviews, found within the online paper, James Schuyler's Poetics of Indolence:

Mark Hillringhouse: Edmund White says that "Only through the long poem can Schuyler recreate the experience of time living through us."
James Schuyler: That may be true, but I don't think about things like that. I think I just want to keep the story going.
MH: Do you internalize the poetic forms?
JS: No. I don't write that way at all. I write as I go along... Those technical aspects of poetry are something I simply never think about.

Robert Thompson: You can be quite different from Whitman in not taking a bardic stance.
James Schuyler: I leave that to Allen [Ginsberg]
RT: How is it you resisted that?
JS: The bardic? It didn't suit me, I guess
... ...
RT: You don't care for symbols, either.
JS: No, I don't care for them at all. I don't want to get involved in that.

Interviewer: "Did you ever try to write poems about his [Fairfield Porter's] paintings?"
James Schuyler: "No, but I tried to write poems that were like his paintings"
I hate fussing with nature and would like the world to be
All weeds ...
So much messing about, why not leave the world alone ...