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

— James Dickey Deliverance (1970)

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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)

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)

It was something like love
From another world that seized her
From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head
Out of dew, without ever looking, her best
Self to that great need.

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

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