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

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

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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
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I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
- Thom Gunn