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Firsts Quotes by Billy Collins
- A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
- I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times -…
- The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it…
- 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 write…
- The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly…
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