"And I should mention the light which falls……" — Billy Collins

"And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches..."

— Billy Collins

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57 Quotes by Billy Collins

Billy Collins has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Death is what makes life fun.
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere…
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time…
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a…
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and…
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different…
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so…
I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…

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More Big Quotes

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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see… — Diane Ackerman
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some… — Michelle Bachelet
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs… — Michele Bachmann
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people,… — Michele Bachmann

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