I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.... — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen.… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
