Billy Collins Quotes

When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

Jesmyn Ward

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I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

Jesse Ventura

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I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

John Glenn

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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

Matt Drudge

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In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

Andy Serkis

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Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.

Amy Sherald

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I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

Steve Erickson

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Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Stephen Cole Kleene

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I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

Simon Toyne

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When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Shirley Temple

PoliticsYouAudiencePleaseLarge

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

Trevor Dunn

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The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Tomas Transtromer

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