Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get 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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