Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him... →
Billy Collins
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of... →
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to... →
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the... →
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is... →
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from... →
Judy Collins
Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
Misha Collins
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
William Collins
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Julio Cortazar