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

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 …

- Thomas Lynch

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…

- 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 d…

- Thomas Lynch

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 …

- Thomas Lynch

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

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

- Thomas Lynch

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

- Thomas Lynch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

- Thomas Lynch