Billy Collins Quotes

I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1941

Topics

WalkThinkSomeoneWithoutJust

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

John O. Brennan

OpportunityAnniversaryLookingKnow

I made a big mistake of my life.

Robert Jenkins

LifeMistakeMy LifeBigMade

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Robert Englund

MotherBackCaliforniaSheThings

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Michelle Malkin

TogetherBirdsBullyFeatherLawless

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

Michelle Williams

TimeBestExperienceWalkGrateful

What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.

Luc Montagnier

MeDieStageHighCellsClear

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Josephine de La Baume

BeautyAmazingUnconventionalLauren

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Dinesh D'Souza

KingRootsSaidNothingMovement

When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same... every minute of every day.

Douglas Conant

DayPeopleDirectionWalkingYou

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

Chaz Bono

I AmGayPersonKindWayMovement

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Arthur E. Morgan

LoveFaithHopeStrong

For my very first September issue, I put Naomi Campbell on the cover. She was wearing this orange Anne Klein sequin suit - it would probably look incredibly '80s today.

Anna Wintour

TodayLookOrangeSheFirstSuit

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