"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever,…" — James Dickey
"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."
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James Dickey
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30 Quotes by James Dickey
James Dickey has 30 quotes on this site.
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Find something only you can say
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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and…
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If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which…
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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally…
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing…
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
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I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
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More Fever Quotes
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
— John James Audubon
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving…
— Hugo Black
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining…
— Laurel Clark
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It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum…
— Hillary Clinton
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can,…
— Sam Walton
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In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than…
— Winston Churchill
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I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name…
— Cindy Crawford
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The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable…
— Winston Churchill
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Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to…
— Dennis Miller
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