James Dickey Quotes (25 Quotes)


    We listen to him on a variety of subjects. Sean is in contact with him constantly. Yes, we do talk to him and see him as often as we can.

    I'm sure they were disappointed. As you can imagine, the players listened intently. But they all wished him the best, told him they loved him. He told them he loved them, to stay on the books and play hard and do their best.

    A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

    William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

    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.


    No, there are no mixed messages. The calls he's made have been in support and love for the players. He's not been talking to them about how they're playing, other than he's proud they played hard. It's been more of an opportunity to let them know how he feels about them personally, and he is proud of them.

    And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever

    The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

    She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

    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.

    He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

    You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

    I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

    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.

    Beneath them I swam to the boathouse
    With only my life in my arms
    To wait for the lake to shine back
    At the risen moon with such power
    That my steps on the light of the ripples
    Might be sustained.

    To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

    I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

    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.

    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.

    All day I climb myself bowlegged up those damned poles, rooster-heeled, in all kinds of weather

    I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

    There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

    The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

    One of the great things he provided during the week under certainly difficult circumstances was great leadership. He was there for the players. He expressed to them they came here to get an education and play basketball. He was very positive. Our practices were outstanding.

    I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?


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