James Dickey Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by James Dickey:
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
~James Dickey
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
~James Dickey
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So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
~James Dickey
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He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
~James Dickey
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
~James Dickey
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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
~James Dickey
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To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
~James Dickey
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
~James Dickey
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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
~James Dickey
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There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
~James Dickey
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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
~James Dickey
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The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
~James Dickey
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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
~James Dickey
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
~James Dickey
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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
~James Dickey
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You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
~James Dickey
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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
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