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James Dickey
American
Novelist
About the author
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Want
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.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Honor
#Poetry
#Poets
#Harm
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Result
#Mission
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,
American
Novelist
#Feeling
#Being
#State
#Mind
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,
American
Novelist
#Being
#War
#Destruction
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Want
#Will
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#American
#Poetry
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Editors
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,
American
Novelist
#Wrong
#Fire
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,
American
Novelist
#Guilt
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Feeling
#Deep
#Sex
#Intimacy
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Rain
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
James Dickey,
American
Novelist
#Want