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Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present book’s title,... read more
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“All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time, but that was not going to happen today.”
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And the past and the future? Nothing but an only child with two different masks.
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And so the priceless moments of the day were squandered one by one— or more likely a thousand at a time— with quandary and pointless interrogation. All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time,
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which means that I am calmly flying in the face of the Buddhist advice to do only one thing at a time.
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Let us move together through the rest of this day passing in unison from light to shadow, coasting over the crest of noon into the valley of the evening and then, holding hands, slip into the deeper valley of night.
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and the poets are at their windows because it is their job for which they are paid nothing every Friday
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First Sentence edit
I wonder how you are going to feel when you find out that I wrote this instead of you, that it was I who got up early to sit in the kitchen and mention with a pen the rain-soaked windows, the ivy wallpaper, and the goldfish circling in its bowl.
Table of Contents edit
You Reader
One
Monday
Statues in the Park
Traveling Alone
House
In the Moment
The Peasants' Revolt
Theme
Eastern Standard Time
The Long Day
Two
I Ask You
Breathless
In the Evening
Bereft
Flock
Boyhood
Building with It Face Blown Off
Special Glasses
Three
The Lanyard
Boy Shooting at a Statue
Genius
The Student
Reaper
The Order of the Day
Constellations
The Drive
On Not Finding You at Home
The Centrifuge
The Introduction
Four
The Revenant
See No Evil
Freud
Height
The Lodger
Class Picture, 1954
Care and Feeding
Carry
Drawing Class
The Flying Notebook
Fool Me Good
Evening Alone
The Trouble with Poetry
Silence
Acknowledgments
Authors & Contributors edit
- Billy Collins (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0-375-50382-X
Page Count: 91
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0-375-50382-X
Page Count: 91
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3553.O47478T76 2005
- Dewey: 811.54
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