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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
Explore more quotes by Thom Gunn
"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."
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