James Dickey Quotes

James Lafayette Dickey was 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 best known for his novel Deliverance which was adapted into an acclaimed film of the same name. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. February 1923 – 19. January 1997
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Famous James Dickey Quotes

“I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies
Above me in a blue light
Shed by a tinted window.”

James Dickey

The Hospital Window (l. 1–4).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“I saw for a blazing moment
The great grassy world from both sides,
Man and beast in the round of their need.”

James Dickey

The Sheep Child (l. 41–43).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains
It is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.”

James Dickey

The Heaven of Animals (l. 1–6).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

James Dickey Quotes

“Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.”

James Dickey

Cherrylog Road (l. 106–108).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“These hunt, as they have done
But with claws and teeth grown perfect,
More deadly than they can believe.”

James Dickey

The Heaven of Animals (l. 20–22).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

“Those that are hunted
Know this as their life,
Their reward: to walk
Under such trees in full knowledge
Of what is in glory above them,
And to feel no fear.”

James Dickey

The Heaven of Animals (l. 29–34).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

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