Being an admirer of James Joyce, Collier found a solution in Joyce's "Ulysses". "On going for my next lesson to "Ulysses", that city of modern prose," he wrote, "I was struck by the great number of magnificent passages in which words are used as they are used in poetry, and in which the emotion which is originally aesthetic, and the emotion which has its origin in intellect, are fused in higher proportions of extreme forms than I had believed was possible." The few poems he wrote during this time were afterwards published in a volume under the title "Gemini".