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Billy Collins Quotes: Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
         

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.


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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.



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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.



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The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.



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Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.



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In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.



Write the poem only you can write.

Write the poem only you can write.



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But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.



But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.



While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.



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So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.





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