I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes brilliant comically dyer
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
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was. Jack Whitehall alrightcareerdanny Change image and share on social
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume. Mindy Kaling achievebackgroundbeggar Change image and share on social
Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor. Kevin Spacey actorbrillianthave Change image and share on social