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Out Quotes by Billy Collins
- I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I…
- 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…
- The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda,…
- One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.
- Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear…
- A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails…
- All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating…
- Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me…
- 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…
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