James Dickey Quotes

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming...

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take th...

... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavageAs though they would shriekLike things smothe...

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and gro...

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived...