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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

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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

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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

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons

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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but theres no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, Ill write a bad poem. – Marilyn Hacker

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