James Dickey Quotes
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~ James Dickey Quote
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
~ James Dickey Quote
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
~ James Dickey Quote
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
~ James Dickey Quote
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 Quote
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
~ James Dickey Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
~ James Dickey Quote
Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.
~ James Dickey Quote
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
~ James Dickey Quote
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
~ James Dickey Quote
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
~ James Dickey Quote
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 Quote
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
~ James Dickey Quote
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
~ James Dickey Quote
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
~ James Dickey Quote
