Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
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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
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
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
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
It's not that I'm against Cox and the people who run Cox right now. We don't want to give that much authority to an unknown company, No. 1.
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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.
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