Quote by James Dickey
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. - James Dickey

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

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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

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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. – James Dickey

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

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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One cant write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who dont like poetry. – Nathalie Sarraute

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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