So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
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
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
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
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…
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
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.
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
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 …
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
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 …
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
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…
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. - Thomas Lynch
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. - Thomas Lynch
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments. - Thomas Lynch
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.
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