There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, … - Thom Gunn

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Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way. ’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

Thom Gunn

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

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A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

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I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

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Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

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