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Billy Collins has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
• A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
• When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy…
• It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
• I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational…
• Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from…
• The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once…
• ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

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