Quotes by : Billy Collins

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less....

When i believe in everything, I could not seethe actors semicircled around a studio microphoneflipping....

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need....

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the....

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes....

I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry....

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

perhaps the answer is simply one:one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet,a small jazz combo....

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free....

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper.....