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To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

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James Dickey's Popular Quotes

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

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What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

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I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

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Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

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

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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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I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a …

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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

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