44 Quotes by 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.

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.

It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

This is what it's like to be God.

It strikes me that after all the archbishops and politicos and true believers have their say on the ethics of the matter of euthanasia, bare fact sounds very compelling and very challenging.

It's not that I'm against Cox and the people who run Cox right now. We don't want to give that much authority to an unknown company, No. 1.

The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...