We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of … - James Dickey

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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

James Dickey

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

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There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

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

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Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

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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