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James Dickey quotes

American Novelist February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997

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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
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence. James Dickey
I had the feeling that if it were perfectly quiet, if I could hear nothing, I would never wake up. Something in the world had to pull me back, for every night I went down deep, and if I had any sensation during sleep, it was of going deeper and deeper, trying to reach a point, a line or border. James Dickey
With my foot on the water, I feel The moon outside, Take on the utmost of its power. I rise and go out through the boats. I set my broad soul upon silver, On the skin of the sky, on the moonlight, Stepping outward from the earth onto water. In quest of the miracle. James Dickey
... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavage. As though they would shriek. Like things smothered by their own. Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts. In Georgia, the legend says. That you must close your windows. At night to keep it out of the house. The glass is tinged with green, even so, As the tendrils crawl over the fields. The night the Kudzu has. Your pasture, you sleep like the dead. Silence has grown oriental. And you cannot step upon the ground... ALL: Kudzu by James Dickey James Dickey
James Dickey quote: "William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our..."
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey
James Dickey quote: "The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above..."
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. James Dickey
James Dickey quote: "A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be..."
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. James Dickey
The death of a real deer at my hands was just a vaporous, remote presence that hovered over the figure of the paper deer forty-five yards away at target six of our archery range, as I tried to hit the heart-lung section marked out in heavy black. James Dickey
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
James Dickey quote: "The women of the South have brought into American literature a..."
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. James Dickey
James Dickey quote: "There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You..."
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. James Dickey
James Dickey quote: "I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever..."
I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given. James Dickey
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
James Dickey quote: "The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy,..."
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. James Dickey

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