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Thom Gunn

"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."

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"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."

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
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"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
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"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."
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