Thom Gunn's Quote - It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the 50s.

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It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the 50s.

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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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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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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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

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