"Radio is such a perfect medium for the……" — Billy Collins
"Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction."
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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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More Distraction Quotes
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one of 446 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we…
— Hilaire Belloc
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
— Saul Bellow
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen…
— John Cage
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I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family,…
— Herman Cain
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The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end…
— George Clooney
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author…
— Harlan Coben
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've…
— Unknown Author
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Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding…
— Nhat Hanh
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