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Write Quotes by Billy Collins
- Write the poem only you can write.
- 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…
- I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a…
- 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,…
- 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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