Quote #0
The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.
Billy Collins
About This Quote
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Interpretation
A wry, self-referential joke about poetry as a self-perpetuating activity: once people engage with it, it tends to inspire more poems, which the speaker frames as a "problem" in a humorous, lightly skeptical way.
