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
frost pieces toilets
If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.
couple writing trying
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.
feelings mind peculiar
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.
moon views rivers
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.
tired kind
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
believe praise criticize
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
rain poetry lightning
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
writing realizing love-poetry
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
calls feels love mixed opportunity played proud support talking
No, there are no mixed messages. The calls he's made have been in support and love for the players. He's not been talking to them about how they're playing, other than he's proud they played hard. It's been more of an opportunity to let them know how he feels about them personally, and he is proud of them.
climb kinds weather
All day I climb myself bowlegged up those damned poles, rooster-heeled, in all kinds of weather
bicycle drunk forever highway motorcycle mouth power soul speed wild wind
And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever
american-novelist
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
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One of the great things he provided during the week under certainly difficult circumstances was great leadership. He was there for the players. He expressed to them they came here to get an education and play basketball. He was very positive. Our practices were outstanding.