Thom Gunn

“I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.”

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

“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.”

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

“We control the content of our dreams.”

“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.”

“I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”