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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.
James Dickey



Biography
Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: February 2, 1923
Died: January 19, 1997

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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
James Dickey

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
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

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.
James Dickey

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.
James Dickey

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey

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Words
Altitude, Depending, Even, Feel, Fire, Flash, Point, Say, See, Sometimes, Way, Wrong, Your
Definitions
Altitude, Depending, Even, Feel, Fire, Flash, Point, Say, See, Sometimes, Way, Wrong, Your
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