Billy Collins's Quotes

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The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed...

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic...

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when...

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and...

People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to...

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on...

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily...

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on...

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader...

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different...

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending...

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader...

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be...

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it....

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a...

No one here likes a wet dog.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet...

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