Quotes by : Billy Collins

It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to....

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but....

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we....

I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's....

And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air....

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other....

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry....

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could....

The whole idea of it makes me feellike I'm coming down with something,something worse than any stomach....

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry....