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James Dickey [1923-1997] American

Rank: 109
Novelist, Poet

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award.

Poetry, Amazing

Quote	Tags	Rank
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.	Poetry	101
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.		102
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.		103
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.		104
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.		105
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?		106
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.		107
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.		108
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.	Amazing	109
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.		110
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.		111
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.	Poetry	112
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.	Poetry	113
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.		114
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.		115
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.		116
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.		117

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