Quote by James Dickey
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. - James Dick

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – 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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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred de Musset, Le Poète déchu, 1839

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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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