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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
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I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.
- Thom Gunn
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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
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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
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I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
- Thom Gunn
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I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
- Thom Gunn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We control the content of our dreams.
- Thom Gunn
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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
- Thom Gunn
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Many of my poems are not sexual.
- Thom Gunn
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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.
- Thom Gunn
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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
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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
- Thom Gunn
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
- Thom Gunn
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