News at Eleven: I mean, I don't want to throw names

around particularly, but anyone who's doing something that I can't do, or particularly a poet that is writing . . . has access, kind of a corner of a reality to write about that never would have occurred to me. That is infuriating. But often there's room for me to rush in, too. You know often there's a dream. I don't know if you've had this dream. It's a very common dream that you're in a very familiar house, the house you live in, and you notice a door you've never noticed before, and you open it up, and there's some kind of glorious place that you've never discovered, and often finding some fresh poem by someone else is like opening a door you never thought was there, and there's room for other poets to come in and belatedly work the ground in a way.

from Birmingham Weekly: Billy Collins: Rock star poet

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