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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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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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. – Jack Prelutsky

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

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I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. – Paul Dirac

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. – Madonna Ciccone

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