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)

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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