"It's a good thing to get poetry off……" — Billy Collins
"It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life."
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57 Quotes by Billy Collins
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- Death is what makes life fun.
- I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
- It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere…
- A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
- When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time…
- I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a…
- One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and…
- Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different…
- Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so…
- I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
- I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…
- Bugs Bunny is my muse.
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