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James Dickey Quotes

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry Picture Quote #1

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person Picture Quote #1

We’ve always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can’t handle Picture Quote #1

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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, ‘What is art?’ He answered, ‘Art is a lie which makes us see the truth Picture Quote #1

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired Picture Quote #1

There ain’t nothin’ to dyin’, really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away Picture Quote #1

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine Picture Quote #1

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please? Picture Quote #1

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity Picture Quote #1

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You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine Picture Quote #1

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history Picture Quote #1

He can’t imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it Picture Quote #1

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished Picture Quote #1

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard Picture Quote #1

Find something only you can say Picture Quote #1

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If you write well, you don’t have to dress funny Picture Quote #1

To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything Picture Quote #1

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well Picture Quote #1

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The body is the one thing you can’t fake; it’s just got to be there Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning Picture Quote #1

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest God damn thing that ever was in the whole universe Picture Quote #1

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry (James Dickey Quotes) I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. (James Dickey Quotes) 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 Quotes) There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person. (James Dickey Quotes) We’ve always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides. (James Dickey Quotes) Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can’t handle. (James Dickey Quotes) I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, ‘What is art?’ He answered, ‘Art is a lie which makes us see the truth (James Dickey Quotes) It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired (James Dickey Quotes) There ain’t nothin’ to dyin’, really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away (James Dickey Quotes) The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine (James Dickey Quotes) I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please? (James Dickey Quotes) I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity (James Dickey Quotes) You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine (James Dickey Quotes) Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history (James Dickey Quotes) He can’t imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it (James Dickey Quotes) To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished (James Dickey Quotes) Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard (James Dickey Quotes) Find something only you can say (James Dickey Quotes) If you write well, you don’t have to dress funny (James Dickey Quotes) To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything (James Dickey Quotes) I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself (James Dickey Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well (James Dickey Quotes) The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity (James Dickey Quotes) 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 Quotes) The body is the one thing you can’t fake; it’s just got to be there (James Dickey Quotes) 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 Quotes) A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning (James Dickey Quotes) What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest God damn thing that ever was in the whole universe (James Dickey Quotes)