"I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible."

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Billy Collins

#Thinking Quotes #Underrated Quotes

“A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.”
“The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.”
“... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.”
“No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]”
“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?”
“What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.”
“Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.”

Source : Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins
“My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.”

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