James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.
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“under chenille bed spreads
The farm girls are feeling the goddess in them struggle and rise
brooding”
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“All it means, if you wilt that way with a lady, is that you haven’t yet really met her. You’re not trying to make love to a woman, you’re trying not to miss an opportunity.”
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“I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies
Above me in a blue light
Shed by a tinted window.”
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