"My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand."
-Thom Gunn
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"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!“
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