Thom Gunn Thinking Quotations

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.