Poetry Quote by Billy Collins — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”

“But some nights, I must tell you,”

“I could feel the day offering itself to me,”

“all they want to do”

“It is time to float on the waters of the night.”

“But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,”

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”

“Sufilere sohbet gerek”

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow”

“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”

“A wealth you cannot imagine”

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”