Quotes by John Allison

“It is almost as thoughsomething else is breathingquite close by, invisibly.The mystery of the namesAlbizzia. Gleditsia.Aucuba japonica. AndI am listening, seeing. Seeing,like someone twice alive.”

“In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves.”

“Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pr...”