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
Source: Wikipedia
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
effort lazy
It strikes me that after all the archbishops and politicos and true believers have their say on the ethics of the matter of euthanasia, bare fact sounds very compelling and very challenging.
true ethics believers matter fact sounds challenging
[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.
death conservation green things corpse land planet saving
The same but different
This is what it's like to be God.
god
It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
corpse
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.
people unknown authority company run give
The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.
time instinct
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.
death emotional events sex grief things create love destroy
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
effort poetry language sense
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
civilization
people experience
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
life
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.
poetry history language
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.
language
You must log in to post a comment.
There are no comments yet.
