What did Billy Collins mean by: There’s a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. - Billy Collins Poet · USA Copy
+ …balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. Feraz Zeid, July 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Collins, Lost, Wish, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Oneself, Process, Voice, 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
+ The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper. Feraz Zeid, July 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Collins, Mind, Paper, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Arrows, Heart, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Eye, Gun, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Green, 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
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. Explain - Franz Kafka Writer · Czechia
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. - Gabriel García Márquez Author · Colombia
