Best 5 quotes of John Allison on MyQuotes

Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

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

It is almost as though something else is breathing quite close by, invisibly. The mystery of the names… Albizzia. Gleditsia. Aucuba japonica. And I am listening, seeing. Seeing, like someone twice alive.

Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.

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 pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.