Thom Gunn Quotes & Sayings

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27 most famous Thom Gunn quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American poet who passed away on 25 April, 2004.

Thom Gunn Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”
Thom Gunn Quotes
“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”
Thom Gunn Quotes
“We control the content of our dreams.”
Thom Gunn Quotes
“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”
Thom Gunn Quotes
“I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.”
Thom Gunn Quotes
“Many of my poems are not sexual.”
Thom Gunn Quotes
“We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”

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