Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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Pride will not act unless it be allowed that it can succeed and it will do nothing rather than not do it brilliantly.Thomas Lynch
In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet. It is not enough to be a corpse anymore, ... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
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
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
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
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
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