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Thom Gunn Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004

Topics

Good Poetry Deep Language Help Way

This is what the media does with women. You try to divide and conquer women so you can intimidate and victimise them. This is why they don't make movies where a lot of women get to be on set together. It's about dividing.

Jessica Chastain

Women Together Conquer Media You

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Manners Place Individual Interested

The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black people as well, and the roles they're meant to play... I'm aware of it, as a person of color.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

History People Slavery Color Black

I fought for, like, five years in Hawaii - nothing better than that. It was awesome. Every fight, I went on vacation, and I wasn't cutting any weight, so I could just eat whatever I wanted. I enjoyed it.

Vacation Fight Better Hawaii Nothing

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

You Know Opening Got Deals Those

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

Time Art Society Understanding Going

When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks.

Good Science Finance Parents College

The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.

Kiss Proud Trying Stop Say First

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

You Situation Sometimes Your Forces

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

People Career Books Most Other

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Humor Find Important Seem Some Once

Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

William G. Boykin

Support Constitution Think Stand

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