• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins
  American poet
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. ridiculous
2. seriously
3. ourselves
4. generally
5. everybody

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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else. by : Billy Collins

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