Thomas Lynch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whateverâ€™s there to feel, feel it â€“ 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. Get that part done â€“ the sooner the better. The only way around these things is through them.
-- Thomas Lynch

#Silence #Tears #Done
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 #Pay #Want
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...
-- Thomas Lynch

#Grief #Attachment #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 #Life #Giving
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

#Silence #Tears #Relief
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
-- Thomas Lynch

#Funeral #Needs #Good Fun
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

#Effort #Language #Situation
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

#Sex #Grief #Emotional
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

#Writing #Sublime #Important
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
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

#Hate #Moving #Unpacking

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