Thom Gunn Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Generations, Wordsworth

• 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.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Reading, Bisexual

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.177, Faber & Faber

• I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.

  Thom Gunn

  Sex, Book, Passion

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