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Inspirational Quotes by Billy Collins
- Death is what makes life fun.
- 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…
- It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
- I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
- Write the poem only you can write.
- In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
- One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.
- ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
- No one here likes a wet dog.
- The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.
- ...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
- High School is the place where poetry goes to die.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento