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Thom Gunn

"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."

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"When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
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