Will Sense Fact Shakespeare Writer When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. - Thom Gunn
Poems Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. - Thom Gunn
People 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. - Thom Gunn
Men Being I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. - Thom Gunn
Poetry Feeling Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. - Thom Gunn
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. - Maimonides