Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments. Thomas Lynch More Quotes by Thomas Lynch More Quotes From Thomas Lynch I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. Thomas Lynch lazy effort mean Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. Thomas Lynch enough-is-enough enough seems 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 mourning funeral people 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 relief silence tears A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. Thomas Lynch good-fun funeral needs 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 grief want pay 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 love giving life 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 emotional grief sex 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 sublime important writing 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 hobbies utterance way ... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do. Thomas Lynch doing-you deeds knows 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 situation effort language 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 unpacking hate moving There is no other legitimate and reliable way to do that. You can't do it by air, you can't do it through Pakistan because they just extort for everything they do, the lifeline runs through Chabahar. Thomas Lynch top-news The economic piece is really important to get a glimmer of hope for Afghanistan to move beyond a land-locked, poppy-based economy. We are now shooting that in the head. Thomas Lynch top-news Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. Thomas Lynch shape repeat will lines
