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Thomas Lynch
American
Poet
Born:
1948
Effort
Language
Me
Sense
Will
Word
Related authors:
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maya Angelou
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Thomas Lynch
Life
You
Own
Enough
Enough Is Enough
Tell
Seem
Poems
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
Thomas Lynch
Me
Word
Language
Important
Sense
Market
Intimate
Entirely
Poems
More
Write
Part
Voluntary
Suppose
Most
Were
Sublime
Gets
Done
Them
Ignored
Satisfying
Assigned
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
Me
Language
Sense
Out
Poetry
Remains
Shaping
Suppose
Make
Effort
Situations
Essentially
Senseless
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
Thomas Lynch
Will
Poem
Shape
Takes
Line
Repeat
Lines
Itself
Pair
Ear
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