Comments on: Litany by Billy Collins http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2007/11/13/litany-by-billy-collins/ Wed, 23 May 2012 15:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: rinabeana http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2007/11/13/litany-by-billy-collins/#comment-8561 rinabeana Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:05:45 +0000 http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2007/11/13/litany-by-billy-collins/#comment-8561 Jane, Thank you so much for the very nice comment. I haven't read much of Billy Collins's work, but I really need to get more because I know I'd like him. Thank you for the recommendation for "The Lanyard". Enjoy the poems! Carina P.S. I think Mary Oliver is absolutely amazing! Jane,

Thank you so much for the very nice comment. I haven’t read much of Billy Collins’s work, but I really need to get more because I know I’d like him. Thank you for the recommendation for “The Lanyard”.

Enjoy the poems!
Carina

P.S. I think Mary Oliver is absolutely amazing!

]]> By: Jane Elder Wulff http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2007/11/13/litany-by-billy-collins/#comment-8450 Jane Elder Wulff Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:59:22 +0000 http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2007/11/13/litany-by-billy-collins/#comment-8450 Hello rinabeana, whoever you are. I just discovered your wondrous website when I googled Mary Oliver's "Messenger." I love Billy Collins. His book "Questions About Angels" currently claims pride of place on my toilet tank along with Walt Whitman. I have heard Collins read "Litany" aloud. Also "The Lanyard" (check it out). Oliver's passage "Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished" is what sent me to Google, finally, months after I cut it from some advertisement and taped it to my monitor. And then I found your site, the first ever to be set down by me in a permanent place. And now it's time to keep my mind on my work, knowing rinabeana is always there to go back to. Jane Elder Wulff, Battle Ground, Washington, 8/2/08 Hello rinabeana, whoever you are.
I just discovered your wondrous website
when I googled Mary Oliver’s “Messenger.”
I love Billy Collins. His book “Questions About Angels”
currently claims pride of place on my toilet tank
along with Walt Whitman. I have heard Collins
read “Litany” aloud. Also “The Lanyard” (check
it out). Oliver’s passage “Let me keep my mind
on what matters, which is my work, which is
mostly standing still and learning to be astonished”
is what sent me to Google, finally, months after
I cut it from some advertisement and taped it to
my monitor. And then I found your site, the first
ever to be set down by me in a permanent place.
And now it’s time to keep my mind on my work,
knowing rinabeana is always there to go back to.

Jane Elder Wulff, Battle Ground, Washington, 8/2/08

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