Billy Collins Quotes - Page 5

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• You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Memories, Sibling

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

  Billy Collins

  Miserable, Poet

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Mean, Voice

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

  Billy Collins

  Brother, Creativity, Thinking

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• I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Underrated

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• ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

  Billy Collins

  Pleasure, Source, Courses

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• No one here likes a wet dog.

  Billy Collins

  Dog, Wet Dogs, Likes

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• It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.

  Billy Collins

  Believe, Cutting, Yesterday

  Billy Collins (1995). “The art of drowning”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• This love for everyday things,
  part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
  part a literary calculation

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Everyday Things, Natural

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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 unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Men, Night

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• I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

  Billy Collins

  Moving, Simple, Progress

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• You'll find i-poetry, you'll find that you can download poetry, that you can stuff your i-pod with recorded poetry. So just to answer the question that way, I think that poetry is gonna catch up with that technology quite soon.

  Billy Collins

  Technology, Thinking, Answers

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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