Thom Gunn

Quotes

• “These seem like bristles, and the hide is tough.No claw or web here: each foot ends in hoof.”
• “Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy,To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”
• “Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant oneThe great grey rigid uniform combinedSafety with virtue of the sun.Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”
• “One joins the movement in a valueless world,Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled,One moves as well, always toward, toward.”
• “Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songsHe turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time.”
• “My thoughts are crowded with deathand it draws so oddly on the sexualthat I am confusedconfused to be attractedby, in effect, my own annihilation.”

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