70 Quotes by 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.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can’t handle.

After four hours I passed slowly from the country of ‘nine-fingered people and prepare to meet thy God’ into the drive-ins and motels and Homes of the Whopper but all I could see was the river.

I was inside out of myself and something was given a life-mission to say to me hungrily over and over and over your moves are exactly right for a few things in this world: we know you when you come Green Eyes, Green Eyes.

My move my throat my wildest loves, the eyes behind my eyes. Instead I left Him, though he followed me right to the end.

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

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

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

If you write well, you don’t have to dress funny.