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

“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves,”

“The History Teacher”

“I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.”

“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,”

“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.”

“As wave is driven by wave”

“i laced my shoes with sorrow”

“Twas the night before Thanksgiving.”