"Grief is the price we pay for being……" — Thomas Lynch
"Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other."
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12 Quotes by Thomas Lynch
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's…
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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
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Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the…
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There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and…
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Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...
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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out…
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Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
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Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make…
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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies…
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If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the…
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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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