Thom Gunn Quotes

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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

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