Billy Collins talks about his creative process on a video in "Big Think". I recommend clicking the link and listening. He tells us that writing a poem is the joy of language, and that it's a journey with an unexpected ending. He says: "I have a poem called “Questions About Angels”. And at the end of that poem an angel appears. And I didn’t know she existed before I wrote that poem. And I guess strictly speaking she didn’t. So I think that the job of that poem was to bring its own ending to being."
I thank you, Billy, that is inspiring.
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