Quotes about James Dickey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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