Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
James DickeyThe New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
James DickeyI do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
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