Occasional Quote by Billy Collins Download Open image “Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.” — Billy Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Occasional Poetry
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of — Tom Holt 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
Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional… — Dave Stevens Copy Share Image
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between? — Buwei Yang Chao Copy Share Image
"Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back… — Neal Knox Copy Share Image
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
