Billy Collins

Billy Collins feels two ways about the places he writes about.  In the first stanza of Advice to Writers he says, "Even if it keeps you up all night...".  He is saying that your study is a place that you can either get work done very quickly or you can spend countless hours on one page.  He states that you have to keep your study clean because cleaning will make you think and clear your mind of all other thoughts.  On every page of his poems he tells us how he feels about certain places.  He puts the good with the bad.