+ 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
+ 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
+ I was able to read poets that were – allowed me to be humorous without being silly. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Humorous, Silly, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Contentment, Lions, Tonight, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ …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
+ Until recently, I thought ‘occasional poetry’ meant that you wrote only occasionally. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Occasional, 0 - Billy Collins Poet · USA
+ Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Collins, Boundaries, Insanity, Land, 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
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. 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
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA