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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

~Billy Campbell

Topics: Beginning Car City Countryside Day Days Dining First Love Maybe Modes New New York New York City Past Real Remember Rolling Silver Summertime Taking Those Train Trains Travel Trip Up Used Virginia Watching White Window York I Remember I Love

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The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

~Billy Campbell

Topics: Again Better First First Place Going Only Place Than The Only Thing Thing

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I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years before it finally happened. Eventually I made 23, but boy, that first one was a long time coming. It was the price I paid for not shooting at every flag.

~Billy Casper

Topics: Any Before Boy Coming Eventually Every Finally First First One Flag Golf Happened Kind Long Long Time Made Paid Played Price Shooting Time Tour Years

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I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.

~Billy Casper

Topics: Add Allergy Bear Buffalo Certain Expensive First Fruits Had Hippopotamus Kinds Loaded Might Moose Pesticides Problems Protein Tied Turned Vegetables Very

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When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.

~Billy Casper

Topics: Accepted Athletics Became Being Class Developed Every First First Grade Grade Hurt Kid Kids Me Overcame Performing Skin Thick Thick Skin Way

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I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Continue Continuing Develop Does Feel Finds First Gets Goes Going Line Momentum Nowhere Occur Other Poem Reason Sense Sometimes Tell Think Times Wants Will You I Think I Can

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The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Basis Because Constructed First Key Line Lot Meter Out Poem Reader Rest Signature Tone Trust Used Dna

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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Against Brilliant Disappointing Expectation First Improvement Like Literary Lives Measured Novel Often Second Seems Unfair Up

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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Am Begin Beginning Engagement Establish Even Few First Hospitality Inside Inviting Kind Lines Mat Me Poem Poems Reader Social Title Want Welcome Where I Am

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I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Across Came College First Isle Lake Other Poems

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