Quotes by Thom Gunn

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

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I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my...

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

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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me,...

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I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

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I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who...

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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there...

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I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people,...

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I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result...

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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

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

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As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure...

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