"While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane."

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Source : FaceBook post by Billy Collins from May 31, 2013

Billy Collins

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“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”
“Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“You have to learn and keep learning.”
“Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.”
“In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.”

Source : "The right ratings system could make worldwide markets more sustainable" by Allen L White, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2014.
“Weep for the lives your wishes never led.”
“From every human being there rises a light.”
“If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.”

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