Thom Gunn
Poet
1929-08-29
Books by Thom Gunn
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Quotes by Thom Gunn
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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