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Billy Collins Quotes

American - Poet | March 22, 1941 -

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

Poetry Places Pretty Boxes Cereal

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

Leadership Art Responsibility Purpose

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.

Social Media I Am Media Privacy Much

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

Think Underrated Word Poems I Think

If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

Walk People Thought You Pen Write

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

Vision Art Tradition Be True True

Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.

Fun People Way Talk Him Everyone

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

People Language Important Duty Whose

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.

Ridiculous Seriously Take Poet Being

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

Funny Humor Think You Serious Very

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

Life Age Quality Fast Through Going

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

Poetry Reading Think Uncomfortable

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