Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.

Billy Collins's Popular Quotes

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…

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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

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…

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In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

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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…

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Write the poem only you can write.

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The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

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While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

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