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We control the content of our dreams.
— Thom Gunn
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Thom Gunn
writer, poet
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1929 – 2004
Thomson William "Thom" Gunn was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, where he adopted a looser, free-verse style. Gunn wrote about his experience moving to San Francisco from England. He received numerous literary honours, and his best poems are reputed to possess a restrained elegance of philosophy.
All Quotes by Thom Gunn
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These seem like bristles, and the hide is tough.No claw or web here: each foot ends in hoof.
— Thom Gunn
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Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy,To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.
— Thom Gunn
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Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant oneThus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.
— Thom Gunn
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One joins the movement in a valueless world,One moves as well, always toward, toward.
— Thom Gunn
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Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songsThe impulse to a habit of the time.
— Thom Gunn
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My thoughts are crowded with deathby, in effect, my own annihilation.
— Thom Gunn