Billy Collins: "Comecei afastando-se de poetas como Wallace Stevens e...

"Comecei afastando-se de poetas como Wallace Stevens e Guindaste Hart e começou a ler poetas como, novamente, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, e os poetas britânicos que foram importados através dessa importante antologia reunidos por Alvarez - e esses incluem Thom Gunn e Ted hughes. E acho que esses poetas me deram garantia de que havia outras maneiras de escrever além do estilo bastante envolvente de alto modernismo cujos sacerdotes eram quilos, Eliot e Stevens, e guindaste talvez."

--- Billy Collins

Versão em inglês

I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.