High school Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “High School is the place where poetry goes to die.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare High school Poetry School
High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school,… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class. — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and… — Sarah Kay 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
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. — 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
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
High school, going into my junior year, I kind of had the idea I was going to be the starting running back. I was a little smaller, so I decided to gain weight and try to get faster. I wasn't a fan of the weight room. I thought just the God-given talent would take you where you needed to go.… — Saquon Barkley Copy Share
I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!” — Kathy Bryson Copy Share Image
I remember throughout middle school and high school how excited my mom, sister and I would be when a UNC game was on TV.… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I have wrestled in almost every tournament in the world. I've won the Olympics, NCAAs, and World Championships, but none of those can truly… — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share
“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!” — Minoru Furuya Copy Share Image
