Thomas Lynch Quotes

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• Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
• 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 lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
• Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own…
• There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and…
• Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...
• Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
• So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
• Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
• Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create…
• 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…
• 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…

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