"Write the poem only you can write."

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Billy Collins

#Writing Quotes

“I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.”
“And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?”

Source : "The Conscience of a Liberal". Book by Chester Bowles, 1962.
“Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.”

Source : Henry Campbell Black (1910). “Handbook of American Constitutional Law”
“If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.”
“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.”
“There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.”
“My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.”

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