Billy Collins Quotes

People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolPoetryPeopleThinkTaste

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

LifeAnimalImpossibleFindSpirit

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

Andrew Mason

SuccessBusinessBarriersOverEqual

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

Johnny Colt

AttitudeYearsAdjustmentGetRehab

Social media is so influential now.

Rita Ora

Social MediaMediaNowSocial

Over the course of my entire Wolverine career, I went from being a single guy to getting married and having kids, and I think you can see that progression in the way that I treated Wolverine.

Jason Aaron

ThinkYouCareerWayOverSee

You need some time off from baseball. Like, when you have a bad game, or you end up playing really good, you go home, and you need to chill out.

Jose Altuve

GoodHomeTimeBaseballGameChill

Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.

Chris Eigeman

ChangeScienceBeginningPhysicsNew

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Christine Quinn

LifeMomentNegativeSomeoneYou

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Bruce Jackson

SilenceWorldFriendsDieAbstract

The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I'm always working on technique so that when the actual races come around I'm ready to go.

Shani Davis

WorkHard WorkPreparationFallDone

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Morley Safer

PeopleQuestionsGritYouWantAsk

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

Ken Jennings

MyselfWinBoringSameGuyAgainst

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