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

Thomas Lynch

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Thomas Lynch
Age: 49 †
Born: 1727
Born: January 1
Died: 1776
Died: December 1
Poet
Politician
Berkeley County
South Carolina
Thomas Lynch Senior
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Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
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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.
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