Logo
Quote by Thom Gunn
Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language woul

Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. – Thom Gunn

Other quotes by Thom Gunn

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

Category:
teacher
Author
Thom Gunn
Read Quote

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. – Thom Gunn

Category:
Poetry
Author
Thom Gunn
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

Category:
Poetry

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but Im glad that I did it. – Tom Glazer

Category:
Poetry

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

Category:
Poetry

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair. – Jose Bergamin

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

I dont have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. – Jack Nicholson

Category:
Fear

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

Category:
Government

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. – Margaret Thatcher

Category:
Love

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. – William Blake

Category:
Truth