Self-interviews
A source page for quotes linked to James Dickey.
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Source: The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992
Source: Self-interviews
Source: The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations
Source: The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations
“Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.”
Source: Night Hurdling: Poems, Essays, Conversations, Commencements, and Afterwords
“What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.”
Source: James Dickey: The Selected Poems
“Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.”
Source: Sorties
“Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.”
Source: Deliverance
“The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.”
Source: Deliverance
“I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.”
“The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.”
Source: Sorties
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
Source: Self-interviews
“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”
Source: Sorties
“He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.”
Source: Self-interviews
Source: Self-interviews
“To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.”
Source: Sorties
“I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.”
“There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.”
“William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.”