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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 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 think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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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. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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

— Thom Gunn

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