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William Collins [1721-1759] English
Rank: 103
Poet


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. 

Humor, Poetry



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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
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In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
102
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
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By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
104
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
105
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
106
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. Humor, Poetry
107
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
108
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. Humor
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