Thom Gunn Quotes

Thom Gunn
British Poet
Born: Aug 29, 1929
Died: Apr 25, 2004
About Being Gay Myself Think Would
Related authors: Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Bibesco George Herbert Helen Dunmore John Donne Lord Byron Samuel Butler Thomas Babington Macaulay
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. Thom Gunn
Art Think Kind About Look Looked Private Gallery Things Treasure Humans
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
Me Age Old Assumed All My Friends Would Had Around Off Friends Very Gradually Dying Plague Them Cut Growing Growing Old Early Here
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. Thom Gunn
Myself Home Sit Stayed Outside Self Hypothetical Know How Test Against Who
I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. Thom Gunn
Dried Written Sort Years Up Anything Four
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. Thom Gunn
Gay Too Trick Easy About Something Write Students Particularly Reader Very Interesting Notice Last
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. Thom Gunn
Myself Try Would Composing Poem Observe Come Because Up Want Process Which Formula Then Using
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. Thom Gunn
Influenced Much Sartre
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. Thom Gunn
Teacher Old Definition Poetry Attempt Understand
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
War Few AIDS About Both Poetry Almost Almost All Felt Been Subjects Decades Which Us Vietnam Vietnam War Popular Deeply Last Two
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. Thom Gunn
First Would About Poems Write Accepted Editors Queer Been Being Sent Them Aware Started
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. Thom Gunn
Will Important Sense Out Sexual Shakespeare Fact Had Badly Undergraduate Left Very Which
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. Thom Gunn
Generation Book Gave Consider Only He Him Read Learned Were Romantics Apart Wordsworth Even Keats Copy University
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. Thom Gunn
Me Class Writing Result Think Other Admired Directly Students Were Improvement Being Each
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. Thom Gunn
Good Language Feeling Way Bit Would Would-Be Poetry Make Help Deep Deep Feeling

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