Billy Collins I am a nonparticipant of social media. I’m not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance. – Billy Collins Attracted Quotes Foregrounding Quotes Forfeiture Quotes Insignificance Quotes Involves Quotes Media Quotes Nonparticipant Quotes Privacy Quotes Social Quotes When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn’t worth reading. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’ That’s the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
Leo Sayer I had to learn very quickly how to perform, how to act, how to look, to always say what I wanted to say in my songs. – Leo Sayer
Debby Ryan I think there’s something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I’m also really into layering during the winter! – Debby Ryan
Henryk Sienkiewicz This homage has been rendered not to me – for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me – but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Giacomo Meyerbeer Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. – Giacomo Meyerbeer
Jesse Armstrong Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, ‘Succession’ has very few standing sets. – Jesse Armstrong
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