Quote by Thom Gunn
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the se

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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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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Poetry
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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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teacher
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AIDS
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White

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AIDS

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. – Princess Anne Ireland

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AIDS

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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AIDS

We are all HIV-positive. – Diamanda Galas

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AIDS

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein

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If you talk bad about country music, its like saying bad things about my momma. Thems fightin words. – Dolly Parton

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