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High Quotes by Billy Collins
- When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector…
- Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to…
- High School is the place where poetry goes to die.
More High Quotes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare
- Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing… — Will Self
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez