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

My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – 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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Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell

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Music is my thing. Its my thing its what I love. Its what I do. Its football to me its Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me. – Ryan Adams

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Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. – James Tate

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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins

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