Quotes by : James Dickey

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived....

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

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.....

... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavageAs though they would shriekLike things smothered....

I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming....

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this....