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William Collins Quotes

«Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.»
«I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breezethat might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.»
«You tell me it is too early to be looking back,but that is because you have forgottenthe perfect simplicity of being oneand the beautiful complexity introduced by two.»
«I would go into the kitchen for coffeeand on the way back to the page,curled in its roller,I would light one up and feelits dry rush mix with the dark taste of coffee.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: Coffee and, curled
«I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: defenses, weakening
«Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: mourned
«But all they want to doIs tie the poem to a chair with ropeAnd torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseTo find out what it really means.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: hose
«Each one is a gift, no doubt,mysteriously placed in your waking handor set upon your foreheadmoments before you open your eyes.»
«I would rather see words out on their own, awayfrom their families and the warehouse of Rogetwandering the world where they sometimes fallin love with a completely different word.»
«I want to remove my hat, close my eyes,and feel the sun, warm and intermittent, on my face.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: intermittent

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