Author: Thom Gunn

Quotes

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

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

- Thom Gunn

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.

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

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

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

- Thom Gunn

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Thom Gunn

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

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

- Thom Gunn

We control the content of our dreams.

We control the content of our dreams.

- Thom Gunn

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

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

- Thom Gunn

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