Billy Collins - Time Quotes

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Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin. No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth or guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.

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And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches...

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The one in the upper left-hand corner
is giving me a look
that says I know you are here
and I have nothing better to do
for the remainder of human time
than return your persistent but engaging stare.

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All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

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