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I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Find something only you can say — James Dickey

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

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

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

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

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. — James Dickey

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

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

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

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person. — James Dickey

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

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. — James Dickey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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