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“When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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“[One of my students said], "Poetry is harder than writing," which I found both erroneous and profound.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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“It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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“Bugs Bunny is my muse.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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“I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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“It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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“Whatever it is you are struggling to remember, it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen. It has floated away.”
— Billy CollinsBilly Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
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