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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 than the passion of sex."

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"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."

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"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."

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"When coming to sex: First served, first come."

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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

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"People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife."

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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."

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"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse."

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"There's no sex in Middle Earth."

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"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."

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"I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about."

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"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."
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"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!"
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"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 by the editors I sent them to."
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"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."
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"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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"My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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