Quotes by Billy Collins

Explore a curated collection of 39 quotes by Billy Collins. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

No one here likes a wet dog. — Billy Collins
You know the parlor trick.wrap your arms around your own bodyand from the back it looks likesomeone is embracing youher — Billy Collins
It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine. — Billy Collins
The whole idea of it makes me feellike I'm coming down with something,something worse than any stomach acheor the headac — Billy Collins
If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you pr — Billy Collins
And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air — Billy Collins
I think it’s vital. It’s odd to me because many people say we live in these awful times and we need culture and art espe — Billy Collins
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't — 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 funny things can — Billy Collins
I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems ar — Billy Collins
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as lead — Billy Collins
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he o — Billy Collins
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for — Billy Collins
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie — Billy Collins
Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can g — Billy Collins
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm tryi — Billy Collins
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's h — Billy Collins
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he strugg — Billy Collins
I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rath — Billy Collins
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where — Billy Collins