Billy Collins Quotes (7 Quotes)

I think more people should be reading it but maybe fewer people should be writing it, ... there's an abundance of unreadable poetry out there.

In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off, Sholeh Wolp writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common.

I have never heard anyone sing
I am so beautiful
and you are a fool to be in love with me,
even though this notion has surely
crossed the minds of women and men alike.

This music is loud yet so confidential.

Where has the summer of 1572 gone?

a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.