What did Billy Collins mean by: The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper. - Billy Collins Poet · USA Copy
+ I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Dark, Flames, Writing, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Aspect, Chaos, Form, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ No one here likes a wet dog. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Collins, Dog, Likes, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Heart, Wall, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ It’s a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Good Things, Public Life, Shelves, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ Write the poem only you can write. Feraz Zeid, June 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Collins, Writing, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ There’s a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Goes On, Unconscious, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Poetry, Trouble, Writing, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia