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Famous Thom Gunn Quotes
“Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”
“The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.”
“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”
“As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.”
“Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.”
“I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.”
“I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.”
“I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”
“I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”
“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”
“We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”