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Type: Poet Quotes Category: British Poet Quotes Date of Birth: August 29, 1929 Date of Death: April 25, 2004 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Thom Gunn Related Authors: Lord Byron Thomas Babington John Donne Lascelles Abercrombie Samuel Butler Christina Rossetti George Herbert Carol Ann Duffy |
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As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
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Thom Gunn Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. Thom Gunn Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. Thom Gunn 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 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 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 I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. Thom Gunn I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. Thom Gunn 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 I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. Thom Gunn 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 I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. Thom Gunn 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 I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. Thom Gunn I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. Thom Gunn 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 I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. Thom Gunn 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 Many of my poems are not sexual. Thom Gunn My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. Thom Gunn |
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