If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. James Dickey More Quotes by James Dickey More Quotes From James Dickey 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 peculiar mind feelings The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. James Dickey intimacy feelings sex 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 fire sometimes way He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it. James Dickey saws results imagine The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. James Dickey crazy intelligent new-york Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. James Dickey occupation poetry-is may Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. James Dickey leopards technique writing A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right. James Dickey lightning storm lucky I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. James Dickey sound fifty needs The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there. James Dickey one-thing fake body Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear. James Dickey rewards no-fear tree You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine. James Dickey hunches bounds fine William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey our-time editors 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 honor mean thinking I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome. James Dickey dueling welcome want 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 able giving thinking I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. James Dickey fever want quiet 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 frustration artist suicide We had made the mistake for years of allowing Democrats to build up a set of strongholds in the major metro areas that they were then able to work from, so it's incumbent on us to recover those gains and attack them right in the base of those strongholds. James Dickey politics Texas Democrats have stifled religious liberty and the freedom to support any organization or belief they do not agree with. James Dickey politics
