More From Thom Gunn
- "There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."
- "My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand."
- "I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
More In Beauty
- "Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."― Wallace Stevens
- "My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, ‘You can become an Olympic champion.’ And that’s the first time that I’d heard someone else say that to me. I was like, ‘Uh, are you talking to me?’"― Ryan Lochte
- "I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing."― Theodore Bikel