I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes auditorium full microphone
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 beginengagementestablish share on social
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence. Billy Collins earlearnlive Change image and share on social
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form. Billy Collins attractbackform share on social
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. Flip Wilson blackcolorcurtain Change image and share on social
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet. Tony Snow 000auditoriummake Change image and share on social
My grandma actually put me in girdles when I was around nine or ten because I had hips even then, and she didn't want boys to be attracted to me. Having hips meant you were a full-grown woman, and I was too young for that. Coco Austin attractboyfull share on social