Aids Quote by Thom Gunn

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

— Thom Gunn

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud…

— Thom Gunn

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

— Thom Gunn

We control the content of our dreams.

— Thom Gunn

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

— Thom Gunn

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

— Thom Gunn

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…

— Thom Gunn

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.

— Thom Gunn

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

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for…

— Thom Gunn

“At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.”

— Thom Gunn

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important…

— Thom Gunn