Billy Collins Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Cutting, Levels

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

• One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

  Billy Collins

  Book, These Days

• 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, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Men, Night

• I can hear the library humming in the night,
  a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
  along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
  Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
  each one stitched into his own private coat,
  together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Son, Night

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.14, Random House

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