James Dickey Quotes

A collection of quotes by James Dickey.

James Dickey (1923-1997) was an accomplished American poet and novelist. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey served as a pilot during World War II and later attended Vanderbilt University. He gained widespread recognition with the publication of his poem "The Bee" in 1960, followed by his acclaimed poetry collection "Buckdancer's Choice" in 1965, which won the National Book Award. Dickey's most famous work, the novel "Deliverance" (1970), was adapted into a successful film in 1972. Known for his vivid imagery and exploration of nature and human experience, Dickey remains an influential figure in American literature.

It was something like love From another world that seized he

It was something like love From another world that seized her From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head Out of dew, without ever looking, her best Self to that great need.

James Dickey

Love Self

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, cr

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

James Dickey

Amazing

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.

Stephen Richards

Money

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I hono

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

James Dickey

Poetry

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

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

James Dickey

Poetry