Billy Collins
Related JAMILA WOODS AMY TAN Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project,... DAVID KARP EMMANUEL MACRON MAYA ANGELOU CARRIE FISHER My main concern is that we really get the transportation plan for the project done right. PAUL GAGNON The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really... MARCUS DU SAUTOY I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one ... GINA GERSHON ELLEN BASS I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my po... GEORGE MURRAY AARON NEVILLE I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist... ANNE STEVENSON PETER STEELE I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's w... KATE DEL CASTILLO Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. ADRIAN MITCHELL Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people ADRIAN MITCHELL But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off... RAEKWON Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be ... GO AH-SUNG Most people ignore most poetry ADRIAN MITCHELL I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for ... NOBUO UEMATSU PENELOPE CRUZ EMINEM My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and po... MICHAEL SHEEN The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. K'NAAN There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My ear... ROBERT ADAMSON RICHARD SERRA SIA I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. STEVIE SMITH PAUL PIERCE ANNA PAQUIN I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. JACK PRELUTSKY CAROLINE KENNEDY I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project... KELLY MACDONALD 'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned thi... JOHN KNOLL PATTI SMITH CHARLIE SHEEN KEVIN GATES RYAN TEDDER My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and ex... JACK BOWMAN I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other. HARRY TRIGUBOFF I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the... FLOYD SKLOOT FRANK IERO PETER JACKSON I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my ... DAVID ALLEE BUSY PHILIPPS BUSY PHILIPPS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f... CYRILLE AIMEE ROBERT PINSKY DAVID GERROLD JERRY GARCIA EMINEM CARL SANDBURG While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what&... DAVID ANTIN MARIANNE MOORE KURT COBAIN I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to pro... NATALIE DORMER WAYNE DYER PAT SUMMITT I've sung other people's music all my life. ADAM LAMBERT I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ... KAJOL BRAD PITT CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after ... CHRIS WOOD CARINE ROITFELD BO BURNHAM MARIA SHRIVER I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big b... MAE WHITMAN I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. NAVEEN ANDREWS JAMES FENTON ANDY COHEN AYELET WALDMAN I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my... STEPHEN FURST I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens... EARL SWEATSHIRT STEVE IRWIN I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've ... HOZIER I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that i... MELISSA ROSENBERG RITA DOVE I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a... JIM PIDDOCK JOHN HURT I have a personal interest in this project because one of my nephews was involved in drugs when he w... RON AGOR MAC MILLER KEVIN SMITH People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. ... PATTI SCIALFA HOLLY MADISON I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that... CAROLINA KOSTNER CANDACE BUSHNELL I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never hi... CHRISTOPHER KOCH My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws ... SETH ROLLINS ELLEN HOPKINS I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and an... STEVEN R. MCQUEEN MEGAN FOX I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennesse... KENNY LEON I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves any... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b... JACKI WEAVER I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project tha... RINKO KIKUCHI EDDIE MURPHY ROBIN WILLIAMS I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm ... 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My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've... 
Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out... 
There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, cl... 
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I mak... 
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i... 
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poet... 
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there. 
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. 
There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because ... 
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. 
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's ... 
A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back whe... 
Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-sett... 
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di... 
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merge... 
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time -... 
I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro... 
I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely differ... 
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I reall... 
Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spe... 
I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'... 
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where ... 
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not... 
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books ... 
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it&#... 
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. 
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it... 
Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I&... 
I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no fo... 
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that'... 
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to d... 
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's rea... 
I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I ... 
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. 
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at wri... 
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... 
The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And ... 
I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt... 
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. T... 
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've s... 
I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of ot... 
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. T... 
There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failur... 
My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for bei... 
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... 
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside s... 
I'm very confident in how I project my personality. 
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exce... 
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... 
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ... 
I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. 
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv... 
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely? 
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m... 
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get... 
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'... 
I prefer black music in general. 
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It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea... 
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w... 
Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br... 
Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. 
Remember?" he asks. "This is where you kissed me."
I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w... 
Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,... 
Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat... 
I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during ... 
When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys... 
We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians we... 
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o... 
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp... 
We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselve...