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James Dickey

James Dickey

American Novelist

Born: Feb 2, 1923

Died: Jan 19, 1997

Away Because Human Being Sometimes Want You

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. James Dickey

Poetry She Judy Judy Garland American Garland

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. James Dickey

Tired You Kind Drift Get Just Nothin Really Away

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. James Dickey

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey

Time Great Our Our Time William Must Surely Editors Packard

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine. James Dickey

You Hunch Fine Bound Make Just

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

Poetry Fever Tranquillity Want

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. James Dickey

Reckless Wished Devoutly Precise

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about. James Dickey

You Sometimes Guilt Earn Ought About Feel Got

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