"One of these days I'm-a make me a…" — Billy Collins

"One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you."

— Billy Collins

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57 Quotes by Billy Collins

Billy Collins has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
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…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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