Billy Collins Quotes About Writing

• Escribe el poema que sólo tú puedes escribir.

  Billy Collins

  Escribir

• El estilo se adquiere aprendiendo lo que hay que omitir. Al principio tiendes a sobreescribir, a adornar en vez de a profundizar. O sigues escribiendo tonterías pueriles, o cambias. En el proceso de simplificarse a uno mismo, a menudo se descubre lo que se llama voz.

  Billy Collins

  Escritura, voz, estilo

• Y la razón por la que escribo esto en el reverso de un sobre manila ahora que han salido juntos del tren es para decirte que cuando ella se volvió para levantar el grande y delicado violonchelo y colocarlo en el estante superior, vi que él la miraba a ella y a lo que estaba haciendo de la forma en que se pintan los ojos de los santos cuando miran a Dios cuando está haciendo algo notable, algo que lo identifica como Dios.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Eye, Together

  Billy Collins (2012). “Nine Horses”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

• Me siento en la oscuridad y espero a que aparezca una pequeña llama en el extremo de mi lápiz.

  Billy Collins

  Escritura, Oscuridad, Llamas

• El problema de la poesía es que fomenta la escritura de más poesía.

  Billy Collins

  Escribir, Problemas, Poesía Es

  Billy Collins (2012). "The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems", p.85, Pan Macmillan.

• I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

  Billy Collins

  Notebook, Writing, Doors

• Empecé a alejarme de poetas como Wallace Stevens y Hart Crane y empecé a leer a poetas como Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin y los poetas británicos importados a través de esa importante antología reunida por Álvarez, entre los que se encontraban Thom Gunn y Ted Hughes. Y creo que estos poetas me dieron la seguridad de que había otras formas de escribir aparte del estilo más bien involucionado del alto modernismo, cuyos sumos sacerdotes eran Pound, Eliot y Stevens, y Crane quizás.

  Billy Collins

  Moving, Reading, Writing

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Finding Yourself

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Journey, Imagination

• Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Ease, Be Kind

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice. But I think you could also put it a different way. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.

  Billy Collins

  Escritura, Carácter, Significado

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Discovery, Agendas

• There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't find a mood that I want to write into. But once I do, once a line falls out of the air, or I get a little inkling of a subject and I recognize that, it's like the sense that a game has started.

  Billy Collins

  Fall, Writing, Air

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• El poema no es, como alguien ha dicho, deflector de entrada. Pero la verdadera pregunta es: "¿Qué le ocurre al lector una vez que entra en el poema?". Esa es la verdadera cuestión para mí, meter al lector en el poema y luego llevarlo a alguna parte, porque pienso en la poesía como una especie de forma de escritura de viajes.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Escribir, Pensar

• Parte de la escritura consiste en descubrir las reglas del juego y luego decidir si seguirlas o romperlas. Lo bueno del juego de la poesía es que siempre es tu turno; supongo que eso se debe a que soy hijo único. Así que una vez que está en marcha, hay una sensación de fluidez.

  Billy Collins

  Niños, Escritura, Juegos

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.

  Billy Collins

  Diversión, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

• Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Sitting

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of the form itself, which has a kind of consciousness. I mean, the sonnet will simply tell you, that's too many syllables or that's too many lines or that's the wrong place. So, instead of being alone, you're in dialogue with the form.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Mean, Lines

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

• Le hablo a alguien que intento que se enamore de mí. Intento hablar íntimamente con una persona. Eso debe quedar claro. No estoy hablando a una audiencia. No estoy escribiendo para el podio. Sólo estoy escribiendo, intentando escribir en un tono bastante tranquilo a otro lector que está solo, o a sí mismo, e intento interrumpir algún silencio en su vida, lo cual es expresión.

  Billy Collins

  Enamorarse, Escribir, Silencio

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this poem, a stranger. So when I'm writing - and I think that this is important for all writers - I'm trying to be a writer and a reader back and forth. I write two lines or three lines. I will immediately stop and turn into a reader instead of a writer, and I'll read those lines as if I had never seen them before and as if I had never written them.

  Billy Collins

  Escribir, Pensar, Dos

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Mean, Voice

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

• When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of the lines - some hold up better as lines than others. But I'm not thinking of just writing a paragraph and then chopping it up.

  Billy Collins

  Escribir, Pensar, Intentar

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

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