Billy Collins Quotes

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

Billy Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SilencePoetryHonorAmericanPage

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

John Goodman

New YorkNewStartedArizonaJust

If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.

Jeffrey Tate

PeopleMeRingBeenWouldStamina

If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.

John Lewis

BridgeAmericaSundayMarchBeen

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

Joyce Meyer

LifeGodPowerThinkSayWant

I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

Jason Katims

HopeCollegeWritingDoingLiving

My wife and I like to cook, so we actually prepare our own meals often and can hold our own in the kitchen.

Donald Trump, Jr.

WifeKitchenPrepareOwnHoldMeals

I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.

Clive Barker

LifeMyselfSurpriseWantWhatever

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Arthur Erickson

NatureLearningThroughOurPart

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Annette Bening

RememberAttentionDesireConviction

I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.

Ali Smith

HappyLongNothingWorkingSure

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

EyesFocusImaginationYouDepend

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

Kenneth Branagh

PeopleAcceptHardJustQuiteVery

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