Download This Image
  • Billy Collins Quote - The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
  • Billy Collins Quote - The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
  • Billy Collins Quote - The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
  • Billy Collins Quote - The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
  • Billy Collins Quote - The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
  • Billy Collins Quote - The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
  1. black
  2. grey
  3. blue
  4. red
  5. brown
  6. white

The entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. Download This Image

    But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

    I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there’s no visual distraction. Download This Image

    Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there’s no visual distraction.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - 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.

    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.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Death is what makes life fun.

    Death is what makes life fun.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

    I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

    Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole’s charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

    A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole’s charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I can’t picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I’m making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.

    I can’t picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I’m making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting.

    Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

    I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. Download This Image

    You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

    This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - As soon as I start to write I’m very aware, I’m trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this poem, a stranger. So when I’m writing – and I think that this is important for all writers – I’m trying to be a writer and a reader back and forth. Download This Image

    As soon as I start to write I’m very aware, I’m trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this poem, a stranger. So when I’m writing – and I think that this is important for all writers – I’m trying to be a writer and a reader back and forth.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

    I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - My poems could easily evaporate. So I don’t know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something. Download This Image

    My poems could easily evaporate. So I don’t know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

    BILLY COLLINS