R.A. Dickey Quotes

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

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

The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

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

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

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

It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

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

no expectations, no disappointments!

common sense is the enemy of romance

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.

Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

anger and jeaously are first cousins!

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

I 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.

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.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

I could never get a real good clear picture of what I could become.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.