Chris Lyon

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey