James Dickey
James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickeywas an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey was also a novelist, known for Deliverancewhich was adapted into an acclaimed film of the same name...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 February 1923
CityAtlanta, GA
occupation may poetry-is
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
fake body one-thing
The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
towns sun come-up
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.
war modern destruction
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.
Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.
sex feelings intimacy
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
writing dresses wells
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
self creative persons
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
world kind possession
Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.
guilt sometimes feels
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
art lying nerves
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.
beautiful
Find something only you can say
reckless precise
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
unique literature mixtures
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.