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Line Quotes by Billy Collins
- 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…
- This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is…
- I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes…
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- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
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- Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent… — Charles Baudelaire