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"Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever."
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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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"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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"When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief."
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"Sex drives the world and sex in on every human mind, be it a prophet or be it a saint, history has full of evidences."
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"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."
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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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"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."
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"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."
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"I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex."
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"We control the content of our dreams."
Dream
"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."
Being
"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!"
Time
"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."
Reading
"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."
Childhood
"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."
Man
"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."
Writing
"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."
Writing
"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."
Writing
"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."
Writing
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