Phrase by 'Thom Gunn'

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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.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Me , Friends , Age , Dying


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!

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Proud , Time , Teacher , Change


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.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Me , Think , Result , Improvement


We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Reading , Our , Put , Factions


As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Look , Treasure , Think , Art


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

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Good , Poetry , Feeling , Deep


We control the content of our dreams.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Dreams , Content , Control , Our


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

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  About , Making , Wonderful , Poem


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.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  See , People , Straight , Leather


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.

Author: Thom Gunn - British Poet
  Book , Great , Passion , Sex


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