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

Quote by James Dickey

Topics: Poetry Quotes

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

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

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

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

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source...

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source...

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you...

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you...

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live...

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live...

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

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

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

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

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to...

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to...

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do...

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do...