Billy Collins Quotes

“No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.”
― Billy Collins, Questions About Angels

“And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.
There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air”
― Billy Collins

“And unlike the volume of his poems,
which lies where I left it, face-down
and half-hidden in the covers, Billy
is a picture of composure—
hands clasped behind his head, his gaze
sailing quizzically around the room.
Perhaps he is interrogating
the snow or coaxing bands of mice
from the elegant labyrinth of his mind.”
― Terry Blackhawk, The Light Between