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....

all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin....

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think....

The History TeacherTrying to protect his students' innocencehe told them the Ice Age was really justthe....

This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow,and when I fill the long flower boxes,then....

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse....

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different....

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

The LanyardThe other day I was ricocheting slowlyoff the blue walls of this room,moving as if underwater....

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the....