All Thom Gunn Quotes
- Many of my poems are not sexual. Funny
- My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. Attempt
- We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. Factions
- 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… Aids
- 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
- 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… All
- While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's… Curiosity
- At worst, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still. Absolute