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


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


— 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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About Thom Gunn






Did you know about Thom Gunn?

 . "But my life" he wrote "insists on continuities — between America and England between free verse and metre between vision and everyday consciousness. One could hardly ask for more.

Thom Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) born Thomson William Gunn was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America even after moving toward a looser free-verse style. He won numerous major literary awards. After relocating from England to San Francisco Gunn who became openly gay wrote about gay-related topics—particularly in his most famous work The Man With Night Sweats in 1992—as well as drug use sex and topics related to his bohemian lifestyle.

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