I admired what my students ... by Thom Gunn, a British Poet

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“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.”

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Thom Gunn

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Name: Thom Gunn

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Aug 29, 1929

Date of Death: Apr 25, 2004

Profession: Poet

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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

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I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

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I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

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When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

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