James Dickey Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous James Dickey quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American novelist who passed away on 19 January, 1997.
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
“The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”
“I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?”
“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.”
“There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.”
“She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.”
“To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.”
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