4 Quotes By James Dickey


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

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
James Dickey on poetry

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 on poetry

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