Thom Gunn

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

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

Nas is one of my favorite rappers because you don't get any of that flashy stuntin'; you get the real, just raw bars. The way he tells stories and his vibe, I think we would make great music together.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.