• Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

  Billy Collins
  American poet
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1. disastrous
2. composed
3. written
4. already
5. verbal

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Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed. by : Billy Collins

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