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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

William Collins

William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a progression from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the imaginative ideal of the Romantic era.

English - Poet | December 25, 1721 - June 12, 1759

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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

William Collins

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

William Collins

William Collins

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. — © William Collins

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

William Collins

William Collins

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

William Collins

William Collins

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

William Collins

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

William Collins

William Collins

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

William Collins

William Collins

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

William Collins

William Collins

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

William Collins

William Collins

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