Skip to content

Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains
It is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.

— James Dickey The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

Another quote →

More quotes by James Dickey

Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever.

The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

I saw for a blazing moment
The great grassy world from both sides,
Man and beast in the round of their need.

The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

These hunt, as they have done
But with claws and teeth grown perfect,
More deadly than they can believe.

The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

Nobody worth a damn could ever come from such a place. It was nothing, like most places and people are nothing.

Deliverance (1970)

Those that are hunted
Know this as their life,
Their reward: to walk
Under such trees in full knowledge
Of what is in glory above them,
And to feel no fear.

The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

All James Dickey quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: James Dickey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.