I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I’m talking to, and I want to make sure I don’t talk too fast, or too glibly. Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem. Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong.-- Billy Collins --
Have a great Friday!
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You have a nice Friday too Ciprano. I just love these quotes you dig up :)
ReplyDeleteBilly Collins! How I miss not being able to see and hear him, I cherish those two years he was the Poet Laureate of the United States.
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