Good thing Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Good thing Good things Inspirational Life Love Poetry Public life Shelves
It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot Copy Share Image
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea,… — Ian Hamilton Finlay 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
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
“Of the good things they do many will pass unnoticed, or will even not be considered good at all; but they need not fear… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“At times, competition can be a good thing. But a person's value isn't something that can be ranked, is it?” — Hotaru Odagiri Copy Share Image
Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The absence of judgment becomes a catalyst and an enabler for greater injustice. Contrary to popular thought, judgment is a GOOD thing when it… — J. Chace Gordon Copy Share Image
“I took that warm feeling running through my veins as a good thing and embraced the darkness for I knew it was only temporary.” — James Cox Copy Share Image
If good things come to those who wait then I must have something ridiculously awesome coming!!! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
IVE LEARNED THE BEST WAY FOR YOU TO HAVE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU , ALL THE TIME, IS TO DO GOOD THINGS FOR… — LEONARD PAUL ROSE Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
