Quotes by Thomas Lynch - Page 1

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Attachment
Grief
Pay
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... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Deeds
Doing You
Knows
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Enough
Enough Is Enough
Seems
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A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Funeral
Good Fun
Needs
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Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Lines
Ear
Pair
Poem
Repeat
Shape
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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.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Effort
Lazy
Mean
Eventually
Generally
Hoop
Jump
Oriented
Task
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Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Grief
Pay
Want
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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 an existential one.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Existential
Funeral
Mourning
People
Retail
Experience People More
Funerals
Meaning
Meaning Of
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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 / Poet
Effort
Language
Remains
Situation
Essentially
Suppose
Senseless
Shaping
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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 praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Love
Life
Giving
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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 or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Hobbies
Utterance
Way
Background
Maker
Interests
Nearer
Subject
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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.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Disappear
Emotional
Events
Grief
Sex
Love Death Me
Breed
Context
Destroy
Remain
Surrounds
Themes
Undo
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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 mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Relief
Silence
Tears
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Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Hate
Moving
Unpacking
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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 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.
Thomas Lynch / Poet
Ignored
Important
Intimate
Satisfying
Sublime
Writing
Done Me Important
Assigned
Entirely
Me Important Done
Suppose
Market
Voluntary
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