“ The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. James Dickey
“ I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anythin… James Dickey
“ I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it. James Dickey
“ In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else. James Dickey
“ ... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavageAs though they would shriekLike things smothered by their ownGreen, mindless, unkillable ghosts.In Georgia, the legend saysThat you must close yo… 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… James Dickey
“ The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. 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
