Name: 【TED】Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time (Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time)
Uploaded: 2017-10-08T21:03:58.000Z
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And let me just tell you a little bit of how that came about.

is a sort of unnatural or unnecessary act.

But when I was United States Poet Laureate --

I was approached by J. Walter Thompson, the ad company,

And the idea was to have me record some of my poems

And the poem, if it's written with the ear,

already has been set to its own verbal music

I mean, let's let the reader do a little work.

But I relented because it seemed like an interesting possibility,

than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth

And this way poetry could find its way onto television of all places.

And I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places --

When I was Poet Laureate, there I go again --

I created a poetry channel on Delta Airlines

So you could tune into poetry as you were flying.

it's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves

Start a meeting with a poem. That would be an idea you might take with you.

When you get a poem on a billboard or on the radio

to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields

I watch it sniffing the paper ceaselessly,

BC: So that makes it seem a little easier.

Writing is not actually as easy as that for me.

But I like to pretend that it comes with ease.

One of my students came up after class, an introductory class,

and she said, "You know, poetry is harder than writing,"

which I found both erroneous and profound.

So I like to at least pretend it just flows out.

A friend of mine has a slogan; he's another poet.

He says that, "If at first you don't succeed,

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【TED】Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time (Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time)

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straight

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