Author: Billy Collins

Quotes

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

- Billy Collins

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

- Billy Collins

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

- Billy Collins

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

- Billy Collins

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

- Billy Collins

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

- Billy Collins

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