William Collins Quotes & Sayings
9 most famous William Collins quotes and sayings (poet).
“Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.”
“How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!”
“By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”
“When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.”
“Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.”
“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.”
“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”
“Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.”
“In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.”
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