I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.
Billy CollinsI stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.
Billy CollinsWhile the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
Billy Collins