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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
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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
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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
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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.
Thom Gunn
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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.
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I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
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.
Thom Gunn
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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
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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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As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
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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 don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
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