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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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"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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"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."
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"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."
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"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
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