Thom Gunn

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

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

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.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Sexual underwear is tacky.