“Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.”
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James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the same name.
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“Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.”
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“... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavage As though they would shriek Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts. In Georgia, the legend says That yo...”
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“To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.”
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“The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.”
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“Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.”
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“To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.”
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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 poe...”
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“She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.”
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“You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.”
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“So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.”
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“William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.”
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“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”
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