Billy Collins Quotes

I Try To Write Very Fast. I Don't Revise Very Much. I Write The Poem In One Sitting. Just Let It Rip. It's Usually Over In Twenty To Forty Minutes. I'll Go Back And Tinker With A Word Or Two, Change A Line For Some Metrical Reason Weeks Later, But I Try To Get The Whole Thing Just Done.

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