"...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages……" — Billy Collins
"...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry..."
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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 Encourages Quotes
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one of 281 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and…
— Martin Van Buren
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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where…
— David Byrne
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Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
— Robert Genn
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...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their…
— Ed Koch
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Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force…
— Leon G. Cooperman
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural…
— Edward Said
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Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us…
— Randy Alcorn
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I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who…
— Bill O'Reilly
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When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
— Julius Erving
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of…
— Howard W. Hunter
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We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.
— Samael Aun Weor
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