Billy Collins Quotes

I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryPeopleProjectHighOffMade

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

Joan Didion

SkyDoingLateBrilliantWest Coast

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

John Abizaid

PeopleBlameWorldViewAmerica

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

LifeTeenMeSayingTroubleMean

After a tough match, I'll do an ice bath, and that's really good for recovery because it helps circulation. Sometimes you feel really swollen.

Ana Ivanovic

GoodToughFeelIceYouBath

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

MeWritingThinkBetterOpinions

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Steven Spielberg

New Year'sThinkYearPersonSingle

Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.

Stevie Nicks

RelationshipHappyThinkFriendsHe

Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

Sloane Crosley

I AmLookingBodyRulesKnowingOwn

The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

CharacterPeaceWarAmazingCareer

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

Robin S. Sharma

BusinessBestCuriosityMindsOpen

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

Ruth Reichl

LearningChallengeBestComfortKnow

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

ScienceKnowFarmersAlwaysThings

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