"Often people, when they're confronted with a poem,……" — Billy Collins
"Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers."
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57 Quotes by Billy Collins
Billy Collins has 57 quotes on this site.
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Death is what makes life fun.
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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
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It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere…
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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
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When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time…
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a…
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and…
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different…
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so…
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I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet…
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When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
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If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves.…
— Dale Carnegie
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
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Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since…
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I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
— Ken Kesey
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A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.
— Peter Dunne
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