58 Quotes by Thom Gunn

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don’t want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

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.

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.

As humans we look at things and think about what we’ve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.