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James Dickey

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

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"I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring."

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"Your child is happy. What else could you want?"

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"If you want to grow, you must learn to let go."

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"I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings."

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"You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to."

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"She was the Judy Garland of American poetry."
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"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
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"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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"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
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