Author: Thomas Lynch

Quotes

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

- Thomas Lynch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

- Thomas Lynch

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

- Thomas Lynch

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

- Thomas Lynch

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