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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its make

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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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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