There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't find a mood that I want to write into. But once I do, once a line falls out of the air, or I get a little inkling of a subject and I recognize that, it's like the sense that a game has started.
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're igno… - Billy Collins
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're igno…
- Billy Collins
It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkab… - Billy Collins
It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkab…
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice. - Billy Collins
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the p… - Billy Collins
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the p…
Write the poem only you can write. - Billy Collins
Write the poem only you can write.
The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper. - Billy Collins
The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and righ… - Billy Collins
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and righ…
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. - Billy Collins
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. - Billy Collins
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
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