58 Quotes by Thom Gunn

Edmund White said he thought coming out in public was good for any writer's work. It was for mine, because the subject matter is so much greater.

Being in the closet, I saw being homosexual as a deliberate choice. It's got nothing to do with choice or the will, but I was being defiant about it.

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

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.

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

We control the content of our dreams.

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.