Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly. Thom Gunn More Quotes by Thom Gunn More Quotes From Thom Gunn Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. Thom Gunn ginsbergwonderful 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. Thom Gunn writingclassthinking I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about. Thom Gunn barswritingpeople 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. Thom Gunn passionbooksex I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. Thom Gunn selfsexthinking I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. Thom Gunn fourhavensyears I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. Thom Gunn enjoymenthinking How sociable the garden was. Thom Gunn summernightchildren 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 movementworldmoving Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind. Thom Gunn ignorantsafetymind We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. Thom Gunn factionsreading We control the content of our dreams. Thom Gunn our-dreamsdream Many of my poems are not sexual. Thom Gunn I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. Thom Gunn paul-sartre It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! Thom Gunn gayproudteacher 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. Thom Gunn writeaboutfirstbeing When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. Thom Gunn sensewillleftimportant
