James Dickey
James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickeywas an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey was also a novelist, known for Deliverancewhich was adapted into an acclaimed film of the same name...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 February 1923
CityAtlanta, GA
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
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We listen to him on a variety of subjects. Sean is in contact with him constantly. Yes, we do talk to him and see him as often as we can.
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One of the great things he provided during the week under certainly difficult circumstances was great leadership. He was there for the players. He expressed to them they came here to get an education and play basketball. He was very positive. Our practices were outstanding.
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No, there are no mixed messages. The calls he's made have been in support and love for the players. He's not been talking to them about how they're playing, other than he's proud they played hard. It's been more of an opportunity to let them know how he feels about them personally, and he is proud of them.
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I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
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He was so pleased in the manner in which guys played. From a personal standpoint, he had to feel so proud of the way they played.
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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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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
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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.
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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
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I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
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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.
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
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He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.