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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.

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: If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

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.

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: Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

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.

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 man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result.

The man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result.

James Dickey quotes: He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

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

James Dickey quotes: The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

James Dickey quotes: Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

James Dickey quotes: In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

James Dickey quotes: William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

James Dickey quotes: Find something only you can say

Find something only you can say

James Dickey quotes: Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

James Dickey quotes: I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

James Dickey quotes: There is no whole truth, but this is what we have,And it goes onBeyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall ...

There is no whole truth, but this is what we have,
And it goes on
Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall ...

James Dickey quotes: Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

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

James Dickey quotes: She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

James Dickey quotes: I don't believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

I don't believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

James Dickey quotes: I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

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

James Dickey quotes: I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

James Dickey quotes: What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

James Dickey quotes: I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

James Dickey quotes: A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

James Dickey quotes: The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

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.

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: The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

James Dickey quotes: I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.

I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.

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

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

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

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

James Dickey quotes: Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.