There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
James DickeySo much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
James DickeyI feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
James DickeyWhat 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.
James Dickey