Top 25 Thom Gunn Quotes (2024 Update)

Thom Gunn Quote: “I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”

1. “I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “We control the content of our dreams.”

2. “We control the content of our dreams.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It’s also an influence in the way you see everything – in the way you feel your life.”

3. “A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It’s also an influence in the way you see everything – in the way you feel your life.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.”

4. “My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”

5. “Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.”

6. “I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.”

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Thom Gunn Quote: “One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.”

7. “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 Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!”

9. “It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!”

Thom Gunn Quote: “Deep feeling doesn’t make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”

10. “Deep feeling doesn’t make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “Ginsberg’s Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.”

11. “Ginsberg’s Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.”

12. “I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “As humans we look at things and think about what we’ve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”

14. “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 Quote: “I don’t know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”

15. “I don’t know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”

16. “My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”

17. “Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the ’60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.”

18. “I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the ’60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.”

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Thom Gunn Quote: “We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”

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

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Thom Gunn Quote: “I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.”

20. “I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “I haven’t written anything in four years. I’m sort of dried up.”

21. “I haven’t written anything in four years. I’m sort of dried up.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.”

23. “When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “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 with each other.”

24. “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 with each other.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it’s too easy to write about my last trick or something. It’s not very interesting to the reader.”

26. “I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it’s too easy to write about my last trick or something. It’s not very interesting to the reader.”

Thom Gunn Quote: “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.”

27. “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 Quote: “Many of my poems are not sexual.”

28. “Many of my poems are not sexual.”

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