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I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Able Around Catching Ipod Itunes Just Listening Mean Mean People People Poems Poetry Should Technology Think Up Walk I Think

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Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Around Because Listen Long Perfect Poems Something Take Very Walking While You

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I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Back Being Black Book Difficult Disappointing Exchange Find Go Her Like Lot Mention One Book Poems Poetry Poets Too Very Without

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I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

~Billy Collins

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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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When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'

~Billy Collins

Topics: Advanced Blocks Could Discovered Gee Imagery Layers Lyric Me Narrative Poem Said Steps Try

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In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Against Become English Flamboyant Forms His Inherited Long More Narrative Now Poet Poetry Recognizable Revolt Than

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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

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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Career Dance Essays Even Hand He His Life Lincoln Love Love Life Painter Satirical Scenario Tried Writer

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The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.

~Billy Collins

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 22nd, 1941

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