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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"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 like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
Explore more quotes by Thom Gunn
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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