"But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light."

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Source : Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

Billy Collins

#Light Quotes #Offering Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 16, 2013
“the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.”
“I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”
“I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged to do that, but that might be changing. Denise was the one who taught me to develop my ear. I never knew how to listen to writing until she started reading her work to me.”
“I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.”
“It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”
“Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.”

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