"Well the themes for me were and remain……" — Thomas Lynch
"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events."
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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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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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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by…
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.
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Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow…
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