James Dickey

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

— James Dickey

#lightning #outside #poet #rain #someone

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

#deprived #detachment #entitled #feel #feeling

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

— James Dickey

#imagine #mission #never #result #saw

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

— James Dickey

#i #poetry #tranquillity #want

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

— James Dickey

#i want you #me #please #stand #want

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

— James Dickey

#dueling #else #hear #i #i want you

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. ↗

— James Dickey

#garland #judy #judy garland #poetry #she

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

#being #caused #destruction #human #human being

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

— James Dickey

#crazy #creative #indispensable #intelligent #magazine

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

— James Dickey

#complicity #deep #feeling #intimacy #sex