Billy Collins

Person · Open Library

Works

62

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

GB

Active from

1951-01-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

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Total plays

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Billy Collins is an ex-poet laureate of the United States, who writes about simple everyday moments and things in a poignant way. He began "Poetry 180" during his term as poet-laureate to bring the enjoyment of reading poetry back into high school. His most recent collection of poetry is called The Trouble with Poetry. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Collins">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

   · 1996 · cited 18,867x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,515x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,328x

4. UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age

   · 2015 · cited 11,887x

5. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,249x

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Quotes

• “But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.”
• “I love the sound of the bone against the plateand the fortress-like look of itlying before me in a moat of risotto,the meat soft as the leg of an angelwho has lived a purely airborne existence.And best of all, the secret marrow,the invaded privacy of the animalprized out with a knife and wallowed downwith cold, exhilarating wine.”
• “But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.”
• “You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and — somehow — the wine.”
• “This is the beginning.Almost anything can happen.This is where you findthe creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land,the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page.Think of an egg, the letter A,a woman ironing on a bare stageas the heavy curtain rises.This is the very beginning.”
• “The complexity of women's undergarments in nineteenth-century America is not to be waved off, and I proceeded like a polar explorer through clips, clasps, and moorings, catches, straps, and whalebone stays, sailing toward the iceberg of her nakedness.”

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Wikidata facts

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