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Thom Gunn Quotes & Sayings

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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.

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When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a s..ual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

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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.

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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.

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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

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We control the content of our dreams.

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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.

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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

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Many of my poems are not s..ual.

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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!

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I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

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I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bis..ual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is s..ual, even po..ographic.

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I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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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.

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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.

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I think most men, heteros..ual and homos..ual, enjoy being considered s..ual objects.

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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.

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I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

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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.

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