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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"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."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
Explore more quotes by Thom Gunn
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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