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Bugs Bunny is my muse.

Billy Collins

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion,
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Conclusion Fishing Memories Novel Phones
I write two lines or three lines. I will immediately stop and turn into a reader instead of a writer, and I’ll read those lines as if I had never seen them before and as if I had never written them.
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Instead never Reader Stop Writer Written
It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.
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Believe Cutting Yesterday
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’
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Poem Real Thinking Writing
Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
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Boundaries Insanity Land
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there’s no visual distraction.
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Distraction Perfect Primarily Radio Voice
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there’s such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they’re ignored by everybody else.
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Gaps Ignored Poet Themselves World
Death is what makes life fun.
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Death Fun Life
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.
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Echoing Everyone Home Rain Song Tell
That’s the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
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Poem Reader Talking Travel Writing
The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who’s ever had a job – in fact, we’re pretending to be serious now, more or less.
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Anymore Facts Jobs Serious
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you’re simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
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Agendas Discovery Writing
No one here likes a wet dog.
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Dogs Likes Wet
Bugs Bunny is my muse.
BILLY COLLINS

Bugs Bunnies Creativity
You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
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Simplifying Thing Voice
I’m very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader’s attention back into the interior of the poem.
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Attention Conscious Poem Progress

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

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