• A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.

  Billy Collins
  American poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. chronological
2. sequences
3. beginning
4. oriented
5. orient
6. reader

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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem. by : Billy Collins

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