Quotes by Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It’s also an influence in the way you see everything – in the way you feel your life.

Feels

Influence

Way

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

Art

Looks

Thinking

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

Avalanches

Enough

Hands

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

Feelings

Way

Would Be

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

Ginsberg

Wonderful

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.

Children

Night

Summer

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.

Class

Thinking

Writing

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.

Bars

People

Writing

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.

Book

Passion

Sex

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

Home

Self

Tests

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Cutting

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Dying

Enough

Factions

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Feels

Four

Gay

Ginsberg

Hands

Havens

Home

Influence

Looks

Meter

Movement

Moving

Night

Our Dreams

Passion

Paul Sartre

People

Proud

Reading

Rhyming

Self

Sex

Summer

Teacher

Technique

Tests

Thinking

Two

Way

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Quotes by Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It’s also an influence in the way you see everything – in the way you feel your life.

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

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

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

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

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.

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.

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.

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

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