Kind Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kind Obscure Obscure Poetry Poetry Rudeness Verbal Rudeness Woefully Obscure
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,” — Paul Ruffin Copy Share Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas 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
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them. — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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