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'…

- Thom Gunn

As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

- Thom Gunn

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 wa…

- 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

We control the content of our dreams.

- Thom Gunn

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the …

- Thom Gunn

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

- 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

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

- Thom Gunn