Books Quote by Billy Collins

It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest,…

— Billy Collins

“...and in the deep, dreaming hours I am easily moved by the stories of the real men and women who have lived out their…

— Stephen Goodwin

“If I be just a page torn out of a book, May I sail forever over the oceans blue, Float over the treetops and…

— Nancy B. Brewer

“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn my former…

— K.W. Jeter

“While you read this, I am imperishable, somehow more alive than I have ever been, in the strength of my youth, with dear ones…

— Marilynne Robinson

“All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years…

— Lord Dunsany

“Life unfolded in such a way, that it left nothing to do or say, but to let the tides take their time, washing away…

— Iva Hotko

“The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the…

— Alice James

“Where is this time to waste?               It’s gone, Dry and brittle               the minutes broke free                             from the tree of time.…

— Kenyatta García

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I thought that I could make my life into a book that had no life or love in it. . . . Now I…

— Sarah Waters

“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose…

— John Grogan