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

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Poetry
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

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We are all HIV-positive. – Diamanda Galas

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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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Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. – Amanda Heggs

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