Billy Collins Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

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  Real, Escribir, Pensar

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• Bugs Bunny is my muse.

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  Creativity, Bunnies, Bugs

  "Everyday moments, caught in time". "TED Talks", www.ted.com. 2012.

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• La muerte es lo que hace que la vida sea divertida.

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  Diversión, vida divertida

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• I can hear the library humming in the night,
  a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
  along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
  Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
  each one stitched into his own private coat,
  together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

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  Book, Son, Night

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.14, Random House

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• Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

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  Chaos, Form, Aspect

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• The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

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  Keys, Dna, Signatures

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• El instituto es el lugar donde la poesía va a morir.

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  Escuela, Secundaria, Muere

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• There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

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  Mean, Interesting, Want

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• 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.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Dos

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

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• I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

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  Stars, Moon, Sky

  Billy Collins (2012). “Ballistics”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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• Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

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  Voice, Perfect, Radio

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Sitting

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

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• Por claridad no quiero decir que siempre estemos en una especie de zona sencilla en la que todo es claro y reconfortante y se entiende. La claridad es ciertamente un camino hacia la desorientación, porque si no empiezas - si el lector no tiene los pies en la tierra, si el lector está desorientado al principio del poema, entonces el lector no puede extraviarse o desorientarse después.

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  Mean, Simple, Comforting

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

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• I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire times we live in are the ones who seem to be humorless, in their taste for poetry anyway. Humor is just an ingredient. It's always been in poetry. It kind of dropped out of poetry I think during the 19th and up to the mid-twentieth century. But it's found its way back. And it's simply an ingredient.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

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

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• There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

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  Thinking, Goes On, Unconscious

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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Journey, Imagination

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• The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

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  Memories, Phones, Fishing

  2000 Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems, 'Forgetfulness'.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Ease, Be Kind

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

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• Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

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  Reading, Thinking, Differences

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

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• Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.

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  Memories, Two, Perception

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

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  Thinking, Pleasure, Form

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

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• I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

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  Offering, Moments, Feels

  Billy Collins (2011). “The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems”, p.15, Random House

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• 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.

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  Writing, Ambition, School

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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Eye, Together

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

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• You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

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  Wine, Knives, Bread

  Billy Collins (2012). “Nine Horses”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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