Top 17 Quotes by James Dickey

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.

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

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

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

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.