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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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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 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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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 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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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. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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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 sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? ↗

— John Gunther

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