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Thom Gunn Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: British
Born: August 29, 1929
Died: April 25, 2004

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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
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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 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 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 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

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!
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Words

Art, Gallery, Humans, Kind, Look, Looked, Private, Things, Think, Treasure

Definitions

Art, Gallery, Kind, Look, Looked, Private, Think, Treasure