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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

    I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn’t give public readings very often, certainly not – there was no circuit of schools.

    Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that, poets didn’t give public readings very often, certainly not – there was no circuit of schools.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Another trouble with poetry – and I’m gonna stop the list at two – is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry. Download This Image

    Another trouble with poetry – and I’m gonna stop the list at two – is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I’m a line-maker. I think that’s what makes poets different from prose-writers. That’s the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we’re doing these two things at the same time.

    I’m a line-maker. I think that’s what makes poets different from prose-writers. That’s the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we’re doing these two things at the same time.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

    All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a 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 - Listeners are kind of ambushed… if a poem just happens to be said when they’re listening to the radio. The listener doesn’t have time to deploy what I call their ‘poetry deflector shields’ that were installed in high school – there’s little time to resist the poem.

    Listeners are kind of ambushed… if a poem just happens to be said when they’re listening to the radio. The listener doesn’t have time to deploy what I call their ‘poetry deflector shields’ that were installed in high school – there’s little time to resist the poem.

    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.

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  • 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 - The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

    The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

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

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

    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.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

    I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

    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 - You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

    You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there’s always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.

    I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there’s always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.

    BILLY COLLINS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Billy Collins Quote - Bugs Bunny is my muse.

    Bugs Bunny is my muse.

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