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Thom Gunn
6 quotes
“These seem like bristles, and the hide is tough. No claw or web here: each foot ends in hoof.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elvis Presley,", in The Sense of Movement (1957).
“My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.”
Thom Gunn (1929–2004) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Time Of Plague," in The Man With Night Sweats (1992)