58 Quotes by Thom Gunn

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

With my creative writing students, I've taught literature more than I've taught writing courses'I just hope to make them better.

You know I know you know I know you know.