I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
More Quotes from James Dickey:
Beneath them I swam to the boathouseWith 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.
James Dickey
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
James Dickey
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
All day I climb myself bowlegged up those damned poles, rooster-heeled, in all kinds of weather
James Dickey
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
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
James Dickey
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