Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — 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
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
