Billy Collins Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

  Billy Collins

  Pleasure, Source, Courses

• Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

  Billy Collins

  People, Pleasure, Offers

• I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Pleasure, Form

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

• Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Ease, Be Kind

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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