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Thom Gunn

British

August 29, 1929

Poet

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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

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

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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 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.

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