Quotes by Thom Gunn

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only...

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We control the content of our dreams.

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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam...

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

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Many of my poems are not sexual.

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It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By...

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I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that...

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I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but...

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I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco...

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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I...

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