Musical Tables Quotes

“New Calendar
The poem of next year every week a line, every month a stanza,
and a tiny sun rising and setting in every numbered square.”
― Billy Collins, Musical Tables

“Neighborhood What do I care that they’re tearing down the nice old houses and putting up brutal ones? Before very long, I’ll be just a breeze blowing around town, trying to avoid all the wind chimes.”
― Billy Collins, Musical Tables: Poems

“A Memory It came back to me not in the way a thing might be returned to its rightful owner but like dance music traveling in the dark from one end of a lake to the other.”
― Billy Collins, Musical Tables: Poems

“The Code of the West Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it.”
― Billy Collins, Musical Tables: Poems