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17 quotes by James Dickey

This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2013) James Dickey Born James Lafayette Dickey (1923-02-02)February 2, 1923 Atlanta, Georgia Died January 19, 1997(1997-01-19) (aged 73) Columbia, South Carolina, USA Occupation Poet, novelist, critic, lecturer Nationality American Period...
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

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

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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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

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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The... →

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

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

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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