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Thomas Lynch is an American poet born in 1948. He is recognized as a significant voice in contemporary American poetry, known for his profound and introspective poetic style. Lynch's work often explores themes of life, death, and identity, drawing from his Irish-American heritage and American cultural experiences. As a poet, he has contributed meaningfully to the development of contemporary American poetry.

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“A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.”

Needs Funeral Good Fun

Author: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.”

Language Effort Situation Remains Make Sense

Author:Thomas Lynch

“... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.”

Knows Deeds Doing You

Author: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.”

Way Language Interest Subjects Backgrounds Poetry Is Makers Hobbies Utterance Fixation

Author: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 so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.”

Ifs Writing Important Done Language Intimate Satisfying Ignored Sublime

Author: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.”

Wells Sex Grief Events Emotional And Love Disappear Theme Surround Grief And Death Sex And Love

Author: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 around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.”

Knows Littles Done Moving Hate Subjects I Hate Agree Lifetime Bread Hotel Touring Entertainers Packing Salons Bread And Butter Unpacking

Author: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 with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.”

Way Feels Done Forget Silence Tears Dull Relief Mortality Ache Fright Riddance

Author: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.”

Way Love Life Giving Remember Easy Watches Laughing Praying Honor Comfort Praise Thanks Easy Way Pray Love

Author:Thomas Lynch

“Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.”

Grief Pay Taxes Attachment

Book:Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

Source: Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

“Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.”

Ifs Want Grief Pay

Author:Thomas Lynch

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Born: 1948
Known for: Poet
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