As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. Thom Gunn British Poet More Thom Gunn Quotes 0