"But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I……" — Billy Collins
"But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light."
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Billy Collins
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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