All Quotes by Thom Gunn
“We control the content of our dreams.”
“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 oneThus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”
“One joins the movement in a valueless world,One moves as well, always toward, toward.”
“Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songsThe impulse to a habit of the time.”
“My thoughts are crowded with deathby, in effect, my own annihilation.”