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

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I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write. – Colin Quinn

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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. – Robert Morgan

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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. – Boris Pasternak

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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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