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  • Billy Collins Quote - I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
  • Billy Collins Quote - I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
  • Billy Collins Quote - I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
  • Billy Collins Quote - I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
  • Billy Collins Quote - I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
  • Billy Collins Quote - I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
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I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

    A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can’t go home again; but that doesn’t mean you’re not free to try.

    Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can’t go home again; but that doesn’t mean you’re not free to try.

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

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels – children and poets both tend to feel.

    I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels – children and poets both tend to feel.

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    It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - But I think you could also put it a different way. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.

    But I think you could also put it a different way. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

    So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

    I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I don’t know if anyone’s reading it, but poets are still flying around the country going from lectern to lectern.That circuitry has become very well-established. Download This Image

    I don’t know if anyone’s reading it, but poets are still flying around the country going from lectern to lectern.That circuitry has become very well-established.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

    When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - 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?’

    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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    Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one’s interested in the experiences of a stranger – let’s put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.

    I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one’s interested in the experiences of a stranger – let’s put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.

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

    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.

    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.

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