I was born and I will die too early. I don't expect you to love me, I don't expect you to like me. I expect nothing of you. I only hope for you to listen.
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. — Billy Collins
