Arrows Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arrows Fields Heart My heart Next Ready Tripods
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
My heart is broken by the arrow but my head keeps saying to take it slow. There's so much pain and sorrow, but I… — Daniya Copy Share Image
Like an arrow which leaves the shaft and like the rocket that leaves the ground, my heart is not mine anymore. I have given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will.” — A.W. Tozer American pastor Copy Share Image
It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart. — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
An arrow can be shot higher only by dragging it backwards. So don't worry whenever life pulls you back, it's just to push you… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I get from reading in bad light – A kind of measles of the spirit A mumps of the psyche, A disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking… — Billy Collins Copy Share
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience… — Billy Collins Copy Share
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having… — Billy Collins Copy Share
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows… — William Temple Copy Share Image
You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Vasic said the words on Aden’s tongue. “The Arrows expect mercy from no one.” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
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