What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is … - James Dickey

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We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

James Dickey

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

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

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

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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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

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