"But some nights, I must tell you, I……" — Billy Collins
"But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain."
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57 Quotes by Billy Collins
Billy Collins has 57 quotes on this site.
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Death is what makes life fun.
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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
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It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere…
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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
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When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time…
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a…
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and…
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different…
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so…
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I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and…
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful…
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on…
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Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk…
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And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So…
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Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any…
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