Talk:James Dickey

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• I don’t mean to sell the poet so long or at such great length, but I do this principally because the world doesn’t esteem the poet very much. They don’t understand where we are coming from. They don’t understand the use for us. They don’t understand if there is any use. We are the masters of the superior secret, not they. Not they. Remember that when you write.

• I don't understand how a writer could ever get writer's block, so-called. My problem is having too much...and being unable to get it down.

• It appears that my presence would be most efficacious by its absence. (to the other actors on the set of Deliverance after being basked to leave)