American - Novelist | February 2, 1923 - January 19, 1997
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
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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.
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
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There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
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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.
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
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He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
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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.
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