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Thom Gunn Facts
Thom Gunn Is Born On August 29, 1929
Thom Gunn Zodiac Sign Is Virgo
Thom Gunn Zodiac Symbol Is Virgin
Thom Gunn Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Earth
Thom Gunn Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Snake
Thom Gunn Occupation Is Poet
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Thom Gunn Quotes
As humans we look at things and think about what weve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. - Thom Gunn Quotes
Being in the closet, I saw being homosexual as a deliberate choice. Its got nothing to do with choice or the will, but I was being defiant about it. - Thom Gunn Quotes
Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. - Thom Gunn Quotes
Donald Davie was someone whom I got to know shortly before his death. He was consistently supportive, very kind to me, but he was very against queers. - Thom Gunn Quotes
Edmund White said he thought coming out in public was good for any writers work. It was for mine, because the subject matter is so much greater. - Thom Gunn Quotes
Ginsbergs Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesnt directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. - Thom Gunn Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
I dont know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I dont think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I havent written anything in four years. Im sort of dried up. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, its too easy to write about my last trick or something. Its not very interesting to the reader. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I dont want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. - Thom Gunn Quotes
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 Quotes
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic. - Thom Gunn Quotes
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. - Thom Gunn Quotes
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the 50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! - Thom Gunn Quotes
Many of my poems are not sexual. - Thom Gunn Quotes
My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. - Thom Gunn Quotes
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. - Thom Gunn Quotes
We control the content of our dreams. - Thom Gunn Quotes
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didnt even read Keatss book when he gave him a copy. - Thom Gunn Quotes
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. - Thom Gunn Quotes
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. - Thom Gunn Quotes
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didnt write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. - Thom Gunn Quotes
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeares sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeares sonnets. - Thom Gunn Quotes
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