James Dickey

"The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine."

"She was the Judy Garland of American poetry."

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."

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