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

— Thom Gunn

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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. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat. ↗

— Lusia Strus

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

— Thom Gunn

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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. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn. ↗

— William Gurnall

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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. ↗

— William Gurnall

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