Miserable Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Miserable Poet Poetry
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs… — Søren Kierkegaard 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… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Another step had her backed up against the wall, and he braced his arms on both sides of her. "I'm beginning to look forward… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I didn't fit into the Christian college my parents sent me to. I felt tarnished by tragedy, between my brother's death and Escuela Caribe,… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
