"If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd……" — Thomas Lynch
"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 market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done."
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Thomas Lynch
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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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Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we…
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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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