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And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106, continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth, Wringing the handlebar for speed, Wild to be wreckage forever.
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There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
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Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
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A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.
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He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
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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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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
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I saw for a blazing moment The great grassy world from both sides, Man and beast in the round of their need, And the hill wind stirred in my wool.
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The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
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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.
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Your moves are exactly right For a few things in this world.
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Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.
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She is watching her country lose its evoked master shape watching it lose
And gain get back its houses and peoples watching it bring up
Its local lights single homes lamps on barn roofs.
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All families lie together, though some are burned alive. The others try to feel For them. Some can, it is often said.
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With the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throat
The undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be something
That no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough air.
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These hunt, as they have done
But with claws and teeth grown perfect,
More deadly than they can believe.
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And this is the house I pass through on my way To power and light.
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Dust fanned in scraped puffs from the earth
Between his arms, and blood turned his face inside out,
To demonstrate its suppleness
Of veins, as he perfected his role.
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We have all been in rooms
We cannot die in.
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Nothing can come of this nothing can come
Of us: of me with my grim techniques Or you who have sealed your womb With a ring of convulsive rubber:
Although we come together,
Nothing will come of us.
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
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It was something like love
From another world that seized her
From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head
Out of dew, without ever looking, her best
Self to that great need.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
James Dickey
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Born:
February 2, 1923
Died:
January 19, 1997
(aged 73)
Bio:
James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award.
Known for:
Deliverance (1970)
Buckdancer's Choice (1965)
To the White Sea (1993)
Self-interviews (1970)
Jericho: The South Beheld (1974)
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