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

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

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