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

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life. — Thom Gunn

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. — Thom Gunn

That's not me, it's the bear." Her smile widened and she rolled her eyes. "Sure, blame it on the bear." "True story. — Lia Davis

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way. — Thom Gunn

Many of my poems are not sexual. — Thom Gunn

As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off. — Thom Gunn

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. — Thom Gunn

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. — Dawn Gluskin

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly. — Thom Gunn

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

We control the content of our dreams. — Thom Gunn

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. — Thom Gunn

But it's not later yet," said Professor Steg. "It's still now. It won't be later until later. — Neil Gaiman

There's an art to crying without a sound, and I'm a master. But — Courtney C. Stevens

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

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

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

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. — Thom Gunn

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. — Thom Gunn

Their relationship consisted
In discussing if it existed. — Thom Gunn

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

It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually. — Margaret Mitchell

It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors. — Dean Alford

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

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. — Thom Gunn

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