Billy Collins Quotes

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryPeopleSayingSomeoneMeaning

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Matthew Prior

InspirationalHopeDreamWhoThose

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Matt Groening

MeFailEnglishThats

The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.

Mike Medavoy

TimeConstitutionChurchValues

I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'

Michael Keaton

ThoughtDreamWildThingsWowSaw

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GoodHopeDeserveMoreGood Fortune

I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

Josh Turner

WaterRideFunHave FunLegsTry

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

Joshua Lederberg

I AmLiarStupidBelieveThink

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

Chris Cornell

DayEnd Of The DayEndYouFansWho

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

StrengthDayTraditionEnoughYou

People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

Christopher Monckton

PeopleStupidThinkTalkingKnow

The Windows 95 launch was such an incredible experience.

Suzan DelBene

ExperienceWindowsLaunchIncredible

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Todd Barry

EndDoingUpInvolvedTeachingDid

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