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Billy Collins Quotes

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time Picture Quote #1

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe Picture Quote #1

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable Picture Quote #1

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 ignored by everybody else Picture Quote #1

No one here likes a wet dog Picture Quote #1

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest Picture Quote #1

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I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness Picture Quote #1

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart Picture Quote #1

Write the poem only you can write Picture Quote #1

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible Picture Quote #1

Death is what makes life fun Picture Quote #1

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found Picture Quote #1

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Life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye Picture Quote #1

... the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry Picture Quote #1

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper Picture Quote #1

I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together Picture Quote #1

It’s a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life Picture Quote #1

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil Picture Quote #1

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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else Picture Quote #1

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All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time (Billy Collins Quotes) When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe (Billy Collins Quotes) I knew that poets seemed to be miserable (Billy Collins 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 ignored by everybody else (Billy Collins Quotes) No one here likes a wet dog (Billy Collins Quotes) But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest (Billy Collins Quotes) I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness (Billy Collins Quotes) So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart (Billy Collins Quotes) Write the poem only you can write (Billy Collins Quotes) I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible (Billy Collins Quotes) Death is what makes life fun (Billy Collins Quotes) …balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found (Billy Collins Quotes) Life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye (Billy Collins Quotes) ... the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry (Billy Collins Quotes) The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper (Billy Collins Quotes) I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together (Billy Collins Quotes) It’s a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life (Billy Collins Quotes) I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil (Billy Collins Quotes) One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else (Billy Collins Quotes)