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Billy Collins Quotes

When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Said Try Narrative Steps Imagery

I just want to ball. I just want a chance to win a championship. I just want to win. I wake up every day smiling. Why? Because I've got my people around me. I really don't give a damn what anybody thinks about me or what I say or what I do.

Day People Me Win Wake Up Chance

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

People More Up Monk Catch Something

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Art Theatre Present Gone Only Form

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

Family Grandfather Slate Quite Welsh

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

Business Fight Battle You Ready Try

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

Live Music Time Architecture Looking

In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a special gift. And without this gift, you could study and study, but you'd never really become an effective dream teller.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Life Personality Looking Gift You

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.

Brian Tyree Henry

Culture Black Think Atlanta Share

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

Change Perfect Improve Often

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Path Time Doing You Career Same

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

New York New Know Out Who Town

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

People Me Free Feel Want Nothing

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