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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

~James Dickey

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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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There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 2nd, 1923

Died: January 19th, 1997

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