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
mean thinking honor
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.
thinking giving able
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
life running long
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.
guys manner personal pleased proud
He was so pleased in the manner in which guys played. From a personal standpoint, he had to feel so proud of the way they played.
new-york crazy intelligent
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.