To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. James Dickey consummationdevoutlyprecise Change image and share on social
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey editorgreatpackard Change image and share on social
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. James Dickey driftdyinkind Change image and share on social
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please? James Dickey stand Change image and share on social
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. James Dickey baddeprivedetachment Change image and share on social
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. James Dickey causedestructionhuman Change image and share on social
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 claimcraftdubious share on social
