Quotes by : Billy Collins

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

The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the....

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because,....

There are easier ways of making sense,the connoisseurship of gesture, for example.You hold a girl's face....

You know the parlor trick.wrap your arms around your own bodyand from the back it looks likesomeone is....

These days every morning begins like a joke you think you have heard before, but there is no one telling....

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning....

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

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.....