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
James DickeyI need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.
James DickeyPoetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
James Dickey